ANZBGL updates wholesale domestic debt issuance programme
INFORMATION MEMORANDUM
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
BANKING GROUP LIMITED
Australian Business Number 11 005 357 522
(Incorporated with limited liability in Australia)
AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR
DEBT ISSUANCE PROGRAMME
for the Issue of Medium Term Notes and Subordinated Medium Term Notes
Arranged by
Australia and New Zealand
Banking Group Limited
The date of this Information Memorandum is 17 September 2025.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE
Introduction:
This Information Memorandum (the “Information Memorandum”) serves to amend an existing
Australian Dollar Debt Issuance Programme (the “Programme”) of the Australia and New Zealand
Banking Group Limited (ABN 11 005 357 522) (the “Issuer”), the most recent Information
Memorandum for which was dated 9 August 2023 (the “Existing Programme”) for the offering, sale
and issuance of Medium Term Notes and Subordinated Medium Term Notes (“Subordinated Notes”).
In this Information Memorandum, unless otherwise specified, the term “Notes” includes both Medium
Term Notes and Subordinated Notes.
The Issuer is an indirect subsidiary of ANZ Group Holdings Limited (ACN 659 510 791) (“ANZGHL”)
and in this Information Memorandum references to the “ANZ Group” are references to ANZGHL and
its subsidiaries. The Notes are not guaranteed by any person, including ANZGHL. In particular,
ANZGHL does not (i) issue Notes under this Programme; (ii) guarantee the Issuer’s obligations
generally or in connection with the Notes; (iii) have any obligations in respect of Medium Term Notes
issued by the Issuer under this Programme; or (iv) have any obligations in respect of Subordinated
Notes issued by the Issuer under this Programme, except to the extent that such Subordinated Notes
are subject to Conversion into the ordinary shares of ANZGHL (“ANZGHL Ordinary Shares”) as
provided in the terms of the Subordinated Notes.
Notes issued under the Existing Programme:
Notes issued by the Issuer under the Existing Programme prior to the date of this Information
Memorandum and any additional tranches of Notes of existing series of Notes will continue to have the
benefit of the deed poll dated 26 February 2007, 28 November 2008, 10 August 2010, 14 February
2012, 8 April 2014, 3 August 2015, 21 February 2017, 15 October 2018, 11 March 2021, 7 December
2022 or 9 August 2023 (or such other relevant deed poll as applicable), and any agreements relating
to such Notes entered into on or about the date of the applicable deed poll (as supplemented, amended,
modified or replaced by the applicable Pricing Supplement for those Notes (“Pricing Supplement”)).
Issuer’s responsibility:
This Information Memorandum has been prepared by and issued with the authority of the Issuer. The
Issuer accepts responsibility for the information contained in this Information Memorandum.
No independent advice:
This Information Memorandum has been prepared for distribution to professional investors whose
ordinary business includes buying and selling debt securities as principal or agent.
Each potential investor in or purchaser of Notes should determine (and will be taken to have
determined) for itself the financial condition and affairs of the Issuer and the relevance and sufficiency
of the information contained in this Information Memorandum or the documents and information
incorporated by reference or any other financial statements. Such purchase or acquisition of Notes
should be (and will be deemed as having been) based upon the investor’s own independent
investigation of the financial condition and affairs and their own appraisal of the creditworthiness of the
Issuer, after taking all appropriate advice from qualified professional persons. Any investment decision
should be based on that decision, investigation and appraisal and not on this Information Memorandum.
None of the Dealers or the Arranger undertakes to review the financial condition or affairs of the Issuer
during the life of the arrangements contemplated by this Information Memorandum nor to advise any
investor or potential investor in the Notes of any information coming to the attention of any of the Dealers
or the Arranger.
No advice is given in respect of the taxation treatment of potential investors or purchasers in connection
with investment in any Notes or the legal consequences of such an acquisition and each investor or
purchaser should consult its own professional adviser.
No authorisation:
No person has been authorised to give any information or to make any representation other than those
contained in this Information Memorandum in connection with the Issuer or the ANZ Group, the issue
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or sale of the Notes and, if given or made, such information or representation must not be relied upon
as having been authorised by the Issuer or any of the Dealers or the Arranger (each as defined below
in the “Summary of Programme”).
Currency of information:
Neither the delivery of this Information Memorandum nor any offer, issue or sale made in connection
herewith shall, under any circumstances, create any implication that there has been no change in the
affairs of the Issuer or the ANZ Group since the date hereof or the date upon which this Information
Memorandum has been most recently amended or supplemented or that there has been no adverse
change in the financial position of the Issuer or the ANZ Group since the date hereof or the date upon
which this Information Memorandum has been most recently amended or supplemented or that any
other information supplied in connection with this Programme is correct as of any time subsequent to
the date on which it is supplied or, if different, the date indicated in the document containing the same.
Distribution arrangements:
The distribution of this Information Memorandum and the issuance, offering or sale of the Notes in
certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law. Persons into whose possession this Information
Memorandum or interests in or rights in respect of the Notes come are required by the Issuer, the
Dealers and the Arranger to inform themselves about and to observe any such restrictions.
No action has been taken by the Issuer, the Arranger or the Dealers which would permit a public offering
of any Notes or distribution of this Information Memorandum in any jurisdiction where action for that
purpose is required.
The Notes have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the “Securities Act”). Subject to certain exceptions, the Notes may not be offered, sold or
delivered within the United States or to U.S. persons. For a description of certain restrictions on
acceptance, offers, issues and sales of the Notes and on distribution of this Information Memorandum,
see “Subscription and Sale”.
Neither this Information Memorandum nor any Pricing Supplement constitutes an offer of, or an
invitation by or on behalf of any of the Issuer, the Dealers or the Arranger to subscribe for, purchase or
acquire any Notes and should not be considered as a recommendation by the Issuer, the Arranger, the
relevant Dealers or any of them that any recipient of this Information Memorandum or any Pricing
Supplement should subscribe for or purchase any Notes. Each recipient of this Information
Memorandum or any Pricing Supplement shall be taken to have made its own investigation and
appraisal of the condition (financial or otherwise) of the Issuer and the ANZ Group.
Notification under Section 309B(1) of the Securities and Futures Act 2001 of Singapore (the
"SFA"):
In connection with Section 309B of the SFA and the Securities and Futures (Capital Markets Products)
Regulations 2018 of Singapore (“CMP Regulations 2018”), unless otherwise specified in the Pricing
Supplement, the Issuer has determined and hereby notifies all relevant persons (as defined in
Section 309A(1) of the SFA) that the Notes issued or to be issued under this Programme shall be
prescribed capital markets products (as defined in the CMP Regulations 2018) and Excluded
Investment Products (as defined in the Monetary Authority of Singapore (the "MAS") Notice SFA 04-
N12: Notice on the Sale of Investment Products and MAS Notice FAA-N16: Notice on
Recommendations on Investment Products).
Prohibition of sales to EEA retail investors:
The Notes are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered,
sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the European Economic Area (“EEA”). For
these purposes, a “retail investor” means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a retail client as defined
in point (11) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU (as amended, “MiFID II”); or (ii) a customer within
the meaning of Directive (EU) 2016/97 (as amended, the “Insurance Distribution Directive”), where
that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10) of Article 4(1) of MiFID
II. Consequently, no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 (as
amended, the “EU PRIIPs Regulation”) for offering or selling the Notes or otherwise making them
available to retail investors in the EEA has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the Notes or
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otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the EEA may be unlawful under the EU PRIIPs
Regulation.
Prohibition of sales to UK retail investors:
The Notes are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered,
sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the United Kingdom (“UK”). For these
purposes, a “retail investor” means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a retail client, as defined in
point (8) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 2017/565 as it forms part of domestic law in the UK by virtue
of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (as amended, the “EUWA”); or (ii) a customer within the
meaning of the provisions of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (as amended, the “FSMA”)
and any rules or regulations made under the FSMA to implement Directive (EU) 2016/97, where that
customer would not qualify as a professional client, as defined in point (8) of Article 2(1) of Regulation
(EU) No 600/2014 as it forms part of domestic law in the UK by virtue of the EUWA. Consequently, no
key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 as it forms part of domestic law
in the UK by virtue of the EUWA (the “UK PRIIPs Regulation”) for offering or selling the Notes or
otherwise making them available to retail investors in the UK has been prepared and therefore offering
or selling the Notes or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the UK may be unlawful
under the UK PRIIPs Regulation.
No retail product distribution conduct:
This Information Memorandum and the Notes are not for distribution to any person in Australia who is
a retail client for the purposes of section 761G of the Corporations Act. No target market determination
has been or will be made for the purposes of Part 7.8A of the Corporations Act.
Important notice to prospective investors - Hong Kong Code of Conduct for Persons Licensed
by or Registered with the Securities and Futures Commission (paragraph 21 – bookbuilding
and placing):
Prospective investors should be aware that certain intermediaries in the context of certain offerings of
Notes pursuant to the program (each such offering, a “CMI Offering”), including certain Dealers, may
be “capital market intermediaries” (“CMI”) subject to paragraph 21 of the Code of Conduct for Persons
Licensed by or Registered with the Securities and Futures Commission (the “SFC Code”). This notice
to prospective investors is a summary of certain obligations the SFC Code imposes on such CMIs,
which require the attention and cooperation of prospective investors. Certain CMIs may also be acting
as “overall coordinators” (“OCs”) for a CMI Offering and are subject to additional requirements under
the SFC Code. The application of these obligations will depend on the role(s) undertaken by the relevant
Dealer(s) in respect of each CMI Offering.
Prospective investors who are the directors, employees or major shareholders of the Issuer, a CMI or
its group companies would be considered under the SFC Code as having an association
(“Association”) with the Issuer, the CMI or the relevant group company. Prospective investors
associated with the Issuer, or any CMI (including its group companies) should specifically disclose this
when placing an order for the relevant Notes and should disclose, at the same time, if such orders may
negatively impact the price discovery process in relation to the relevant CMI Offering. Prospective
investors who do not disclose their Associations are hereby deemed not to be so associated. Where
prospective investors disclose their Associations but do not disclose that such order may negatively
impact the price discovery process in relation to the relevant CMI Offering, such order is hereby deemed
not to negatively impact the price discovery process in relation to the relevant CMI Offering.
Prospective investors should ensure, and by placing an order prospective investors are deemed to
confirm, that orders placed are bona fide, are not inflated and do not constitute duplicated orders (i.e.,
two or more corresponding or identical orders placed via two or more CMIs). A rebate may be offered
by the Issuer to all private banks for orders they place (other than in relation to Notes subscribed by
such private banks as principal whereby it is deploying its own balance sheet for onward selling to
investors), payable upon closing of the relevant CMI Offering based on the principal amount of the
Notes distributed by such private banks to investors. Private banks are deemed to be placing an order
on a principal basis unless they inform the CMIs otherwise. As a result, private banks placing an order
on a principal basis (including those deemed as placing an order as principal) will not be entitled to, and
will not be paid, the rebate. Details of any such rebate will be set out in the applicable Pricing
Supplement or otherwise notified to prospective investors.
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If a prospective investor is an asset management arm affiliated with any relevant Dealer, such
prospective investor should indicate when placing an order if it is for a fund or portfolio where the
relevant Dealer or its group company has more than 50 per cent. interest, in which case it will be
classified as a “proprietary order” and subject to appropriate handling by CMIs in accordance with the
SFC Code and should disclose, at the same time, if such “proprietary order” may negatively impact the
price discovery process in relation to the relevant CMI Offering. Prospective investors who do not
indicate this information when placing an order are hereby deemed to confirm that their order is not a
“proprietary order.” If a prospective investor is otherwise affiliated with any relevant Dealer, such that
its order may be considered to be a “proprietary order” (pursuant to the SFC Code), such prospective
investor should indicate to the relevant Dealer when placing such order. Prospective investors who do
not indicate this information when placing an order are hereby deemed to confirm that their order is not
a “proprietary order.” Where prospective investors disclose such information but do not disclose that
such “proprietary order” may negatively impact the price discovery process in relation to the relevant
CMI Offering, such “proprietary order” is hereby deemed not to negatively impact the price discovery
process in relation to the relevant CMI Offering.
Prospective investors should be aware that certain information may be disclosed by CMIs (including
private banks) which is personal and/or confidential in nature to the prospective investor. By placing an
order, prospective investors are deemed to have understood and consented to the collection,
disclosure, use and transfer of such information by the relevant Dealers and/or any other third parties
as may be required by the SFC Code, including to the Issuer, OCs, relevant regulators and/or any other
third parties as may be required by the SFC Code, it being understood and agreed that such information
shall only be used for the purpose of complying with the SFC Code, during the bookbuilding process
for the relevant CMI Offering. Failure to provide such information may result in that order being rejected.
No independent verification:
The Dealers and the Arranger have not separately verified the information contained in this Information
Memorandum. None of the Dealers or the Arranger makes any representation, express or implied, or
accepts any responsibility, with respect to the accuracy or completeness of any of the information in
this Information Memorandum. Neither this Information Memorandum nor any document or information
incorporated by reference herein is intended to provide the basis of any credit or other evaluation and
should not be considered as a recommendation by any of the Issuer, the Dealers or the Arranger that
any recipient of this Information Memorandum or any document or information incorporated by
reference herein should purchase or acquire any Notes. The Dealer and the Arranger, if the same legal
entity as the Issuer, act solely through a separate division of the Issuer in the context of this Information
Memorandum and the Programme, without reference to any of its or its subsidiaries’ respective
personnel or operations outside that division, and therefore, are not to be taken to be aware of any
matters within the knowledge of such personnel or operations relating to the Issuer or the Programme.
Fees:
Each Dealer, its subsidiaries, directors and employees may receive fees, brokerage and commissions
and may act as principal in dealing in any Notes.
Under the Programme, the Issuer may from time to time issue Notes as set out herein. A summary of
the terms and conditions of the Programme and the Notes appears below. The applicable terms of any
Note will be agreed between the Issuer and the relevant Dealer prior to the issuance of the Notes and
will be set out in the Conditions of the Notes incorporated by reference into the Notes, as modified and
supplemented by the relevant Pricing Supplement (as defined below) in respect of such Notes.
Unless otherwise defined in this Information Memorandum, words and expressions defined or used in
the “Conditions of the Notes” below, as amended by any relevant Pricing Supplement in respect of a
Series of Notes, or in that Pricing Supplement (as applicable), shall have the same meanings in this
Information Memorandum.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE 7
SUMMARY OF THE PROGRAMME 8
RANKING OF NOTES IN A WINDING-UP OF THE ISSUER 20
CONDITIONS OF THE NOTES 21
1 DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION 21
2 FORM, DENOMINATION AND TITLE 36
3 STATUS 38
4 INTEREST AND OTHER CALCULATIONS 38
5 INTEREST ON FLOATING RATE NOTES AND INDEX LINKED INTEREST NOTES 39
6 REDEMPTION, PURCHASE AND OPTIONS 46
7 CONVERSION OR WRITE-OFF OF SUBORDINATED NOTES ON NON-VIABILITY
TRIGGER EVENT 50
8 CONVERSION OF SUBORDINATED NOTES 53
9 WRITE-OFF OF SUBORDINATED NOTES 58
10 SUBSTITUTION OF ISSUER 58
11 PAYMENTS 60
12 TRANSFER 61
13 TAXATION 62
14 PRESCRIPTION 64
15 EVENTS OF DEFAULT 64
16 SUBORDINATION 66
17 MEETINGS OF HOLDERS, MODIFICATIONS AND WAIVER 66
18 FURTHER ISSUES OF NOTES 67
19 NOTICES 67
20 GOVERNING LAW 68
DESCRIPTION OF THE ANZGHL ORDINARY SHARES TO BE ISSUED UPON
CONVERSION OF SUBORDINATED NOTES THAT ARE SUBJECT TO
CONVERSION 75
USE OF PROCEEDS 78
DESCRIPTION OF THE ISSUER 79
SUBSCRIPTION AND SALE 80
PRICING SUPPLEMENT 86
DIRECTORY 96
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DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
This Information Memorandum should be read and construed in conjunction with all documents which
are deemed to be incorporated by reference.
The following documents are incorporated in, and taken to form part of, this Information Memorandum:
• each Pricing Supplement relating to any Notes;
• the most recently published audited annual consolidated financial statements (including the
auditor’s report thereon and notes thereto) of the Issuer, any subsequent unaudited half yearly
consolidated financial statements (including the auditor’s report thereon and notes thereto) of
the Issuer and the half yearly consolidated financial report (or such other equivalent report) of
the Issuer from time to time and lodged on the Australian Securities Exchange (“ASX”); and
• any amendment or supplement to this Information Memorandum, which shall be deemed to be
incorporated in, and to form part of, this Information Memorandum.
For Subordinated Notes that are subject to Conversion only. In connection with an offering of
Subordinated Notes only, the following documents, are deemed to be incorporated in, and taken to form
part of, this Information Memorandum:
• the most recently published audited annual consolidated financial statements (including the
auditor’s report thereon and notes thereto) of ANZGHL and any subsequent unaudited half
yearly consolidated financial statements (including the auditor’s report thereon and notes
thereto) of ANZGHL, from time to time and lodged on ASX; and
• the most recently published constitution of ANZGHL available at:
https://www.anz.com/shareholder/centre/about/corporate-governance/.
Any statement contained in this Information Memorandum or in any document which is deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for the purpose of this
Information Memorandum to the extent that a statement contained herein or in a document which is
deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such earlier statement (whether
expressly, by implication or otherwise). Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed,
except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Information Memorandum.
References to “Information Memorandum” are to this Information Memorandum and to any other
document incorporated by reference collectively and to any of them individually, in each case as
modified or superseded.
Copies of all documents incorporated by reference into this Information Memorandum may be obtained
from the Issuer and are available for inspection at the Issuer’s offices specified in the Directory and may
be obtained by email from: funding@anz.com.
Although not incorporated by reference, the annual report and any other periodic and continuous
disclosure announcements relating to the Issuer are available online at: www.asx.com.au.
Except as expressly provided above, no other information, including information on www.anz.com.au
or any other website or in any document incorporated by reference in any of the documents described
above, is incorporated by reference into this Information Memorandum.
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SUMMARY OF THE PROGRAMME
The following summary does not purport to be complete and is taken from, and is qualified in its entirety
by, the remainder of this Information Memorandum and, in relation to the terms and conditions of any
particular Tranche of Notes, the relevant Pricing Supplement. Words and expressions defined or used
in the “Conditions of the Notes” below or any Pricing Supplement in respect of any Series of Notes (as
applicable) shall have the same meanings in this summary. This summary must be read as an
introduction to this Information Memorandum and any decision to invest in the Notes should be based
on a consideration of this Information Memorandum as a whole, including the information and
documents incorporated by reference.
Issuer: Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited.
Description: An Australian Dollar denominated Debt Issuance Programme
allowing for the issuance of Medium Term Notes and Subordinated
Notes.
Programme Size: Unlimited.
Arranger: Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited.
Dealers: Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited.
Additional Dealers may be appointed, from time to time, by the
Issuer for any Tranche of Notes.
Direct Issues by Issuer: The Issuer may also issue Notes directly to purchasers or investors
(as applicable) procured by it. Such purchasers will be required to
confirm and acknowledge to the Issuer in writing that the issue of the
Notes resulted from the Notes being offered for issue as a result of
negotiations being initiated publicly in electronic form (e.g. Thomson
Reuters or Bloomberg), or in another form that was used by financial
markets for dealing in debentures.
Method of Issue or
Acceptance of Notes:
Notes will be issued on a syndicated or a non-syndicated basis.
Notes may be issued by the Issuer in one or more Series having one
or more Issue Dates and on terms otherwise identical (or identical
other than in respect of the first payment of interest and related
matters described below), with the Notes of each Series being
intended to be interchangeable with all other Notes of those Series.
Each Series of Notes may be issued in Tranches on the same or
different Issue Dates. The specific terms of each Tranche (which will
be supplemented, where necessary, with supplemental terms and
conditions and, save in respect of the Issue Date, Issue Price, first
payment of interest and principal amount of the Tranche, will be
identical to the terms of other Tranches of the same Series) will be
set out in a Pricing Supplement.
Issue Price: Notes may be issued at their principal amount or at a discount or
premium to their principal amount.
Form of Notes: Notes will be issued in registered form. Notes will be constituted by
a deed poll dated 20 June 2001 as last amended and restated on 17
September 2025 and as further amended and/or restated and/or
supplemented from time to time (“Deed Poll”) made by the Issuer for
the benefit of the Holders of those Notes from time to time and will
take the form of entries on a Register maintained by the Registrar. A
copy of the Deed Poll may be inspected during normal business
hours at the offices of the Issuer or the Registrar or such other place
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or places as may be determined from time to time and notified to the
Holders.
The terms and conditions of the Notes (“Conditions”) are contained
in Schedule 1 to the Deed Poll and are modified and supplemented
by the relevant Pricing Supplement.
Title: Entry of the name of the person in the Register in respect of a Note
constitutes the obtaining or passing of title and is conclusive
evidence that the person so entered is the Holder of the Notes.
No certificates or other evidence of title will be issued to Holders
unless the Issuer determines that certificates should be made
available or it is required to do so pursuant to any applicable law or
regulation. Notes that are held in the Austraclear System will be
registered in the name of Austraclear Ltd and title to the Notes will be
determined in accordance with the Austraclear Regulations.
Payments:
Payments will be made on the payment dates specified in the Pricing
Supplement to the Holder whose name is entered in the Register as
at 5.00pm local Registry Office time on the relevant Record Date.
Payments in respect of Notes lodged within the Austraclear System
will be made by crediting the amount due to the account of the
Holder in accordance with the Austraclear Regulations. If Notes are
not lodged in the Austraclear System, payments will be made to the
account of the Holder noted on the Register. If no account is notified
then payments will be made by cheque mailed on the Business Day
immediately preceding the relevant Interest Payment Date or on the
Maturity Date (as applicable) to the Holder at its address appearing
on the Register as at 5.00pm local Registry Office time on the
relevant Record Date.
Maturities: Any maturity, subject to compliance with legal and regulatory
requirements. The Maturity Date applicable to each Tranche of
Notes will be specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement.
Denominations: Notes will be issued in such denominations as may be specified as
the Specified Denominations in the relevant Pricing Supplement
subject to compliance with all applicable legal and/or regulatory
and/or central bank requirements.
Notes may only be issued in Australia if the aggregate consideration
payable by the investor or purchaser is at least A$500,000
(disregarding moneys lent by the Issuer or its associates) or if the
Notes are otherwise issued in a manner that does not require
disclosure to investors in accordance with Part 6D.2 (disregarding
section 708(19)) or Chapter 7 of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)
(“Corporations Act”) and does not constitute an offer to a “retail
client” as defined for the purposes of section 761G of the
Corporations Act.
Notes may only be issued by the Issuer in a jurisdiction or
jurisdictions other than Australia if the issue is in compliance with the
laws of the jurisdiction in which the issue is made and the Notes are
otherwise issued in a manner that does not require disclosure to
investors under the laws of that jurisdiction or those jurisdictions.
Transfer of Notes and
issue of ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares:
Notes may only be transferred in accordance with the Conditions.
Transfers of Notes held in the Austraclear System or any other
clearing system specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement will be
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made in accordance with the Austraclear Regulations or the rules
and regulations of the relevant clearing system (as appropriate).
In the case of Subordinated Notes, if a Non-Viability Trigger Event
occurs and the Subordinated Notes are to be Converted into
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares, such ANZGHL Ordinary Shares will be
issued to the person who is a Participant (as defined in the
Austraclear Regulations) in the Austraclear System (or, in certain
circumstances, to another person nominated by the Issuer).
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares are not tradeable in the Austraclear
System. Subordinated Notes must be Converted immediately on the
occurrence of a Non-Viability Trigger Event (as described further
below in “Additional Note Risks (Subordinated Notes)”) and this may
affect or disrupt trading or other transactions in connection with the
Subordinated Notes. Neither the Issuer nor ANZGHL is responsible
for any such effects or disruptions and the consequences of any
Conversion or Write-Off for persons interested in the Subordinated
Notes in a clearing system are matters for the rules, regulations and
procedures of Austraclear or other clearing system specified in the
relevant Pricing Supplement and the terms of any dealings between
persons interested in the Subordinated Notes.
In all other cases, applications for the transfer of Notes must be
made by lodgement of a duly completed (if applicable) stamped
transfer and acceptance form with the Registrar. Transfer and
acceptance forms can be obtained from the Registrar. The transfer
takes effect upon the transferee’s name being entered on the
Register.
Notes are only transferable within, to or from Australia in the
denominations specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement and
Notes may only be transferred within, to or from Australia if the
aggregate consideration payable by the transferee at the time of
transfer is at least A$500,000 (disregarding moneys lent by the
transferor or its associates) or the transfer otherwise does not
require disclosure to investors in accordance with Part 6D.2
(disregarding section 708(19)) or Chapter 7 of the Corporations Act,
and provided in each case that the transfer does not constitute an
offer to a “retail client” as defined for the purposes of section 761G of
the Corporations Act.
Notes may only be transferred between persons in a jurisdiction or
jurisdictions other than Australia if the transfer is in compliance with
the laws of the jurisdiction in which transfer takes place and the
Notes are otherwise transferred in a manner that does not require
disclosure to investors under the laws of that jurisdiction or
jurisdictions.
Fixed Rate Notes: Fixed Rate Notes will bear a fixed rate of interest payable in arrear
on the Interest Payment Date or Dates in each year as specified in
the relevant Pricing Supplement.
Floating Rate Notes: Floating Rate Notes will bear interest set separately for each Series
at a rate determined by reference to the reference rate as specified
in the Pricing Supplement, as adjusted by any applicable Margin.
Interest Periods and Interest Payment Dates will be specified in the
relevant Pricing Supplement.
The Conditions contain provisions to replace the reference rate with
a successor reference rate in certain circumstances, without a
requirement for the consent of Holders.
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In the case of Subordinated Notes, any successor reference rate and
any terms and other relevant methodology for calculating such rate is
subject to the prior written approval of the Australian Prudential
Regulatory Authority (“APRA”). Subordinated Noteholders should
note that APRA's approval may not be given for any successor
reference rate, or any terms and other relevant methodology for
calculating such rate it considers to have the effect of increasing the
Rate of Interest contrary to applicable prudential standards.
Index Linked Notes:
Payments (whether in respect of principal or interest and whether at
maturity or otherwise) in respect of, respectively, Index Linked
Redemption Notes and Index Linked Interest Notes will be calculated
by reference to such stock or commodity or other index, currency
exchange rate and/or formula as the Issuer and the relevant Dealer
or other investor may agree (as specified in the relevant Pricing
Supplement). A Subordinated Note cannot be an Index Linked Note.
Zero Coupon Notes: Zero Coupon Notes may be issued at their Principal Amount or at a
discount to it and will not bear interest. A Subordinated Note cannot
be a Zero Coupon Note.
Interest Periods and
Interest Rates:
The length of the Interest Periods for the Notes and the applicable
Rate of Interest or its method of calculation may differ from time to
time or be constant for any Series. Notes may have a Maximum
Rate of Interest, a Minimum Rate of Interest or both. The use of
Interest Accrual Periods permits the Note to bear interest at different
rates in the same Interest Period. All such information will be set out
in the relevant Pricing Supplement. A Minimum Rate of Interest or
Maximum Rate of Interest cannot be specified for a Subordinated
Note.
Other Notes: The Issuer may from time to time issue Notes in a form not
contemplated by the “Conditions of the Notes” herein. Terms
applicable to any other type of Note that the Issuer may agree to
issue and any relevant Dealer(s) or other investor may agree to
purchase under the Programme will be set out in the relevant Pricing
Supplement.
Note Risks: There are risks associated with an investment in the Notes.
Prospective investors or purchasers should consult their own
financial, tax and legal advisers about the risks associated with an
investment in a particular Tranche of Notes and the suitability of
investing in the Notes in light of their particular circumstances.
Without limiting this statement, investors should consider particular
risks associated with investing in Subordinated Notes described
below.
Optional Redemption: The Pricing Supplement issued in respect of each Series of Notes
will state whether such Notes may be redeemed (either in whole or in
part) prior to their stated maturity at the option of the Issuer or the
Holders, and if so the terms applicable to such redemption.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Holders will have no option to require
redemption of any Subordinated Notes prior to their stated maturity.
In the case of Subordinated Notes, the Optional Redemption Date
must not be earlier than 5 years from the Issue Date.
If Clean-Up Call is specified as being applicable in the relevant
Pricing Supplement and 75 per cent. or more in aggregate principal
amount of the relevant Series of Notes issued has been redeemed or
purchased and cancelled, the Issuer may elect to redeem all (but not
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some) of those Notes on the Residual Redemption Date (which must
be an Interest Payment Date) in accordance with the Conditions. A
Clean-Up Call cannot be specified for a Subordinated Note.
Redemption by
instalments:
The Pricing Supplement in respect of each Series of Notes that are
redeemable in two or more instalments will set out the Instalment
Amounts in which and Instalment Dates on which the Notes may be
redeemed. A Subordinated Note may not be redeemable by
instalments.
Redemption for tax
reasons:
In certain circumstances following notice by the Issuer, all of the
Notes of a Series may be redeemed following any changes in tax law
which give rise to an obligation of the Issuer to make a withholding or
deduction and pay additional amounts, and in certain other
circumstances (as provided in Condition 6.2).
Status of Notes: The status of the Notes is as set out in Condition 3. In addition, a
simplified diagram illustrating the expected ranking of the Notes
compared to other creditors of the Issuer is set out in the section
below titled “Ranking of Notes in a Winding-Up of the Issuer”.
The Issuer is an "authorised deposit-taking institution" (“ADI”) within
the meaning of that term in the Banking Act 1959 of Australia (the
“Banking Act”).
The Notes will be direct, unsecured and general obligations of the
Issuer and:
• in the case of Notes other than Subordinated Notes, will
rank equally with all other present and future unsecured and
unsubordinated obligations of the Issuer (other than certain
debts of the Issuer required to be preferred by the relevant
law, including without limitation amounts given priority under
the Banking Act and the Reserve Bank Act 1959 of Australia
(the “Reserve Bank Act”)); and
• in the case of Subordinated Notes, will be subordinated
obligations of the Issuer and will rank pari passu among
themselves and rank pari passu with all Equal Ranking
Securities.
Section 13A(3) of the Banking Act provides that, in the event an ADI
(such as the Issuer) becomes unable to meet its obligations or
suspends payment, the ADI’s assets in Australia are available to
meet specified liabilities of the ADI in priority to all other liabilities of
the ADI (including the Notes). These specified liabilities include
certain obligations of the ADI to APRA in respect of amounts payable
by APRA to holders of protected accounts, other liabilities of the ADI
in Australia in relation to protected accounts, debts to the Reserve
Bank of Australia (“RBA”) and certain other debts to APRA.
Under section 16(2) of the Banking Act and subject to section 13A(3)
of the Banking Act, in a winding up of the Issuer certain other debts
of the Issuer due to APRA shall have priority over all other
unsecured debts of the Issuer. Further, section 86 of the Reserve
Bank Act provides that in a winding-up of the Issuer, debts due by
the Issuer to the RBA shall, subject to section 13A(3) of the Banking
Act, have priority over all other debts of the Issuer.
The Notes will not be a deposit liability or protected account or
otherwise benefit from a priority under the Banking Act or the
Reserve Bank Act.
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Medium Term Notes
Medium Term Notes will constitute direct, unconditional, senior,
unsubordinated and unsecured obligations of the Issuer ranking pari
passu among themselves and with all present and future
unsubordinated and unsecured obligations of the Issuer (save for
certain liabilities mandatorily preferred by law including, but not
limited to, amounts given priority under the Banking Act and the
Reserve Bank Act).
The Medium Term Notes do not constitute a deposit liability or a
protected account for the purposes of the Banking Act.
Subordinated Notes
Subordinated Notes will constitute direct and unsecured
subordinated obligations of the Issuer and rank pari passu among
themselves and with all Equal Ranking Securities. Equal Ranking
Securities include any other instruments that are Relevant Tier 2
Securities.
The Subordinated Notes will be mandatorily Converted into ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares or Written-Off (as specified in the relevant Pricing
Supplement) where this is determined by APRA to be necessary on
the grounds that the Issuer would otherwise become non-viable.
A Non-Viability Trigger Event could occur before or after the Issuer is
in a winding-up. Where the Subordinated Notes of a Subordinated
Noteholder are Converted into ANZGHL Ordinary Shares,
Subordinated Noteholders have the claims of a holder of ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares. If, following a Non-Viability Trigger Event,
Subordinated Notes are Written-Off, Subordinated Noteholders have
no claim at all on the Issuer or ANZGHL, notwithstanding whether
any ANZGHL Ordinary Shares or Junior Ranking Securities remain
outstanding.
The terms of the Subordinated Notes provide that, prior to the
winding-up of the Issuer, the obligation of the Issuer to make
payments (including of any principal, additional amounts and
interest) on the Subordinated Notes, will be conditional on the Issuer
being Solvent at the time of, and immediately after, such payment by
the Issuer. Any such failure to pay will not be considered an Event of
Default for the purposes of the Subordinated Notes.
The Subordinated Notes do not constitute a deposit liability or a
protected account for the purposes of the Banking Act, and are not
insured or guaranteed by any government, governmental agency or
compensation scheme of Australia or any other jurisdiction or by any
party. The terms of the Subordinated Notes do not limit the amount
of the liabilities ranking senior to or equally with any Subordinated
Notes which may be incurred or assumed by the Issuer from time to
time, whether before or after the date of issue of the relevant
Subordinated Notes. See also “Additional Note Risks (Subordinated
Notes)” below.
Cross Default: Not applicable.
Austraclear: Unless otherwise specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement,
application will be made to Austraclear Ltd (ABN 94 002 060 773) for
approval for each Tranche of Notes to be traded on the settlement
system operated by Austraclear Ltd (in accordance with the
Regulations and Operating Manual of Austraclear Ltd).
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Registrar: Austraclear Services Limited (ABN 28 003 284 419).
Tax File Number: The Issuer will deduct tax from payments of interest on the Notes at
the highest marginal tax rate plus the highest Medicare levy if an
Australian resident investor or a non-resident investor carrying on
business in Australia at or through a permanent establishment of the
non-resident in Australia has not supplied an appropriate tax file
number, Australian Business Number or exemption details.
Withholding Tax:
All payments by the Issuer of principal and interest in respect of the
Notes will be made free and clear of all Australian withholding taxes,
subject to exceptions, all as described in Condition 13 (Taxation).
Public Offer Test:
The Issuer proposes to issue Notes and to make payments of
interest in a manner which will satisfy the requirements of
section 128F of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (Cth) of
Australia (unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing
Supplement).
Stamp Duty:
Any stamp duty incurred at the time of the issue of the Notes will be
for the account of the Issuer. Any stamp duty payable on the transfer
of the Notes will be for the account of the investors.
Investors are advised to seek independent advice regarding any
stamp duty or other taxes imposed by any jurisdiction upon the
transfer of, or interests in, Notes.
Governing Law: State of Victoria and Commonwealth of Australia.
Listing: Application may be made for one or more Tranches of Notes issued
under the Programme to be listed on the Australian Securities
Exchange or admitted to listing, trading and/or quotation on such
other exchange, listing authority or quotation system specified in the
relevant Pricing Supplement if agreed between the Issuer and the
relevant Dealers and specified in the Pricing Supplement. Notes
which are listed on the Australian Securities Exchange will not be
transferred through or registered on the Clearing House Electronic
Subregister System (“CHESS”) and will not be CHESS approved
securities. In the event that an interface between the Register
maintained by the Registrar and CHESS is established the
documents relating to the Programme may be amended to facilitate
settlement on CHESS and so the Notes will become CHESS
approved securities.
Notes may also be unlisted.
Selling Restrictions:
See the jurisdictions and restrictions set out in “Subscription and
Sale”.
The Issuer is “Category 2” for the purpose of Regulation S under the
Securities Act.
Rating: Notes may be rated.
A rating is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold Notes and is
subject to variation, suspension or withdrawal at any time by the
assigning organisation.
Any credit rating in respect of any Notes or the Issuer is for
distribution only to persons who are not a “retail client” within the
meaning of section 761G of the Corporations Act and are also
sophisticated investors, professional investors or other investors in
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respect of whom disclosure is not required under Part 6D.2 or
Chapter 7 of the Corporations Act and, in all cases, in such
circumstances as may be permitted by applicable law in any
jurisdiction in which an investor may be located. Anyone who is not
such a person is not entitled to receive this Information
Memorandum and anyone who receives it must not distribute it to
any person who is not entitled to receive it.
Calculation Agent: A Calculation Agent may be named in the Pricing Supplement in
respect of each Tranche of Notes. In certain circumstances, the
Issuer may terminate the appointment of the Calculation Agent and
appoint additional calculation agents or appoint a leading bank or
investment banking firm involved in the interbank market that is most
closely connected with the calculation to act as a Calculation Agent.
A Calculation Agent may not resign its duties without a successor
having been appointed.
Additional Note Risks
(Subordinated Notes):
Without in any way limiting the section above titled “Note Risks”,
certain additional risks arise in respect of Subordinated Notes.
Conversion or Write-Off of Subordinated Notes on a Non-
Viability Trigger Event
Subordinated Notes will be mandatorily Converted into ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares or Written-Off (as specified in the relevant Pricing
Supplement and as further described below) where APRA
determines that (1) such Conversion or Write-Off is necessary
because, without it, the Issuer would become non-viable; or (2)
without a public sector injection of capital or equivalent support, the
Issuer would become non-viable.
If the Pricing Supplement specifies Conversion but, for any reason,
the Subordinated Notes have not been Converted within five
Business Days after the Trigger Event Date, the principal amount of
such Subordinated Note will not be Converted and instead will be
Written-Off with effect on and from the Trigger Event Date.
If a Subordinated Note of a Subordinated Noteholder is Written-Off,
the Subordinated Noteholder’s rights under that Subordinated Note
are immediately and irrevocably terminated for no consideration and
the Subordinated Noteholder will suffer a total loss of their
investment as a consequence.
In the event that a Non-Viability Trigger Event occurs, the Deed of
Undertaking governs the obligations of ANZGHL to issue any
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to be issued by ANZGHL upon
Conversion of Subordinated Notes.
The circumstances under which APRA would determine that the
Issuer is non-viable are uncertain
A Non-Viability Trigger Event could occur at any time.
It is a requirement under APRA’s prudential standards that any term
subordinated debt, in order to be eligible for inclusion as regulatory
capital, contain provisions for conversion or write-off in the event of
non-viability. Whether the Issuer is non-viable is determined by
APRA. The prudential standards do not define non-viability and
APRA has not provided specific guidance on how it would determine
non-viability. Non-viability could be expected to include a serious
impairment of the Issuer’s financial position. However, it is possible
that APRA’s view of non-viability may not be confined to solvency or
capital measures and APRA’s position on these matters may change
over time. APRA has indicated that non-viability is likely to arise prior
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to the insolvency of an authorised deposit-taking institution. Non-
viability may be significantly impacted by a number of factors,
including factors which impact the business, operation and financial
condition of the Issuer, such as systemic and non-systemic macro-
economic, environmental and operational factors.
In certain circumstances ANZGHL Ordinary Shares issued on
Conversion may be issued to a nominee for sale
In certain circumstances, the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares that an
investor would receive on Conversion will be issued to a nominee,
who will sell the shares on behalf of that investor. None of the Issuer,
ANZGHL or the nominee owes any obligations or duties in relation to
the price at which ANZGHL Ordinary Shares are sold or has any
liability for any loss suffered by a Subordinated Noteholder as a
result of the sale of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares. The nominee will
have no duty to obtain a fair market price in its sale of ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares or to engage in an arm's length transaction in such
sale, and market conditions are likely to have deteriorated following
the Non-Viability Trigger Event that caused the Conversion. There is
a risk that the nominee may be unable to sell the shares at all or that
the sale may be delayed.
There are provisions of Australian law that are relevant to the ability
of any person to acquire interests in the Issuer or ANZGHL beyond
the limits prescribed by those laws. Subordinated Noteholders
should take care to ensure that by acquiring any Subordinated Notes
which provide for such Subordinated Notes to be Converted to
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares, they do not breach any applicable
restrictions on the ownership of interests in ANZGHL. If the
acquisition or Conversion of such Subordinated Notes by the
Subordinated Noteholder or a nominee would breach those
restrictions, ANZGHL may be prevented from Converting such
Subordinated Notes and where Conversion is required such
Subordinated Notes may be required to be Written-Off.
Other Relevant Securities are likely to contain similar provisions for
the issue of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to a nominee on Conversion
and for the nominee to sell the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares. The larger
the volume of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares that is required to be issued
to a nominee for sale on Conversion, the more difficult it may be for
any nominee to sell such ANZGHL Ordinary Shares. There is a risk
that the market price for ANZGHL Ordinary Shares may be adversely
affected in such circumstances.
In addition, there is a risk that the Issuer may be unable to appoint a
nominee to receive ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to be issued on
Conversion within five Business Days of the Trigger Event Date.
If Subordinated Notes are Written-Off an investor may lose
some or all of the value of its Subordinated Notes
If Subordinated Notes are Written-Off, investors will lose some or all
of the value of their investment and will not receive any
compensation.
An investor may receive ANZGHL Ordinary Shares worth
significantly less than the principal amount of their
Subordinated Notes and those ANZGHL Ordinary Shares may
be subject to transfer restrictions
Where Subordinated Notes are Converted, investors may receive
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares worth significantly less than the principal
amount of their Subordinated Notes.
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There may be no market in ANZGHL Ordinary Shares received on
Conversion and investors may not be able to sell the ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares at a price equal to the value of their investment and
as a result may suffer loss. The sale of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares
may also be restricted by applicable Australian law and as a result
investors may suffer loss.
The Non-Viability Determination may require some or all Relevant
Securities be converted. Where it requires only some be converted,
in determining the number of Subordinated Notes that are
Converted, the Issuer first takes into account the conversion of
Relevant Tier 1 Securities and then treats Relevant Tier 2 Securities
(including the Subordinated Notes) on an approximately pro-rata
basis or as further described in the terms and conditions of the
Subordinated Notes. Where all Relevant Securities are required to
be converted, all Relevant Tier 2 Securities and Relevant Tier 1
Securities may be converted at the same time. In this circumstance,
the effect is that the rights attaching to Relevant Tier 1 Securities
would not be cancelled, limited or subject to loss absorption before
Relevant Tier 2 Securities (including Subordinated Notes) are
themselves subject to loss absorption. The Banking Act does not
impose on APRA a requirement to ensure that, in the exercise of its
powers, holders of regulatory capital securities (such as
Subordinated Notes) are no worse off than they would be in an
insolvency. The number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares an investor will
receive is determined by the conversion formula applicable to the
Subordinated Notes and not by APRA or by their ranking in a
winding up if APRA were not to issue a Non-Viability Determination.
Subordinated Noteholders should be aware that:
• There is no obligation on the Issuer to issue, or maintain on
issue, any Relevant Securities that it has issued or may decide
to issue in the future. As a result, if a Non-Viability Trigger Event
requiring the Conversion of some but not all Subordinated Notes
occurs, the relative impact on the Subordinated Notes will
depend on the amount of Relevant Securities other than the
Subordinated Notes (if any) that are on issue at that time and
whether those Relevant Securities are Relevant Tier 1 Securities
or Relevant Tier 2 Securities.
• As at the date of this Information Memorandum, Relevant Tier 1
Securities include the securities eligible for inclusion as
Additional Tier 1 Capital (as defined by APRA from time to time).
APRA has proposed that Additional Tier 1 Capital be phased out
from 1 January 2027. This is likely to decrease the amount (if
any) of Relevant Tier 1 Securities and increase the amount of
Relevant Tier 2 Securities that are on issue from time to time,
which could adversely affect the outcomes for holders of
Subordinated Notes in the event of a Non-Viability Trigger Event.
The transitional arrangements that will apply to Additional Tier 1
Capital instruments on issue on 1 January 2027 are subject to
on-going consultation with APRA, however it is expected that no
Additional Tier 1 Capital instruments of the Issuer would remain
on issue after 1 January 2032. Accordingly, from that date, the
only securities ranking junior to the Subordinated Notes in a
winding-up would be ordinary shares in the Issuer, and if a Non-
Viability Trigger Event were to occur there would be no Relevant
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Tier 1 Securities to be Converted before the Subordinated Notes
are required to be Converted.
• There is no requirement that the rights attaching to ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares be cancelled or limited before Relevant
Securities (including Subordinated Notes) are subject to loss
absorption.
Subordinated Noteholders should also be aware that a Non-Viability
Trigger Event may occur more than once. For example, as a result of
a Non-Viability Trigger Event, a partial conversion of some Relevant
Securities may occur and yet fail to restore the Issuer to viability. In
that case, if a further Non-Viability Trigger Event occurs, the
Relevant Securities that remain on issue (which may include
Subordinated Notes) may be subject to loss absorption in
circumstances where there has been a further deterioration in the
financial position of the Issuer and holders of those Relevant
Securities may have a worse outcome than holders of the Relevant
Securities that were previously subject to loss absorption.
Limited remedies available for non-payment and breach
Depending upon its performance and financial position, there is a
risk that the Issuer may default on payment of some or all of the
interest or principal on a Subordinated Note. In this case, investors’
rights are limited to certain specified remedies and, for example,
investors do not have the right to require the Issuer to redeem the
Subordinated Note early. Although the Conditions may specify
certain remedies (for example, seeking an order for the winding-up of
the Issuer) the grant of those remedies may be in the discretion of
the court, and as such may not be granted.
Investors should note in particular Conditions 3.2, 7 to 10 (inclusive),
15.2 and 16 and the Schedule to the Conditions.
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares: For a description of the rights and liabilities attaching to ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares issued on Conversion of the Subordinated Notes,
see the section “Description of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares” below.
Redemption for regulatory
reasons (Subordinated
Notes):
The Pricing Supplement issued in respect of each Series of
Subordinated Notes will state whether those Subordinated Notes
may be redeemed if a Regulatory Event occurs (as provided in
Condition 6.3).
Approval of APRA for
redemption (Subordinated
Notes):
The Issuer may not redeem any Subordinated Notes or purchase, or
procure that any of its Related Entities purchase, any Subordinated
Notes without the prior written approval of APRA.
Prospective purchasers of Subordinated Notes should not expect
that APRA’s consent will be given for any redemption of
Subordinated Notes. Any redemption of Subordinated Notes does
not imply or indicate that the Issuer will exercise any redemption right
of other outstanding Subordinated Notes or any other Relevant
Securities in the future.
APRA has stated that, consistent with its prudential requirements,
where it considers any replacement capital to be more expensive
(including because of higher credit margins), APRA may not approve
a redemption unless the issuer of the notes satisfies it as to the
economic and prudential rationale for the redemption and that the
redemption will not create an expectation that other regulatory capital
instruments will be redeemed in similar circumstances. The matters
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to which APRA may have regard in considering whether to give its
approval are not limited and may change.
Conditions to redemption
(Subordinated Notes):
The Issuer will not be permitted to redeem any Subordinated Note
unless (1) the Subordinated Note is replaced concurrently or
beforehand with Regulatory Capital of the same or better quality and
the replacement of the Subordinated Note is done under conditions
that are sustainable for the Issuer’s income capacity or (2) APRA is
satisfied that the Issuer’s capital position at Level 1, Level 2 and, if
applicable, Level 3 is well above its minimum capital requirements
after the Issuer elects to redeem the Subordinated Note.
Approved NOHC
(Subordinated Notes):
The Issuer may, without the consent of Subordinated Noteholders
(but with the prior written approval of APRA), amend the terms and
conditions of the Subordinated Notes to enable substitution of an
Approved NOHC as the issuer of ordinary shares on Conversion
upon the occurrence of a Non-Viability Trigger Event. Investors
should note Condition 10.
No Set-Off (Subordinated
Notes):
Neither the Issuer nor a Subordinated Noteholder has any
contractual right to set off any sum at any time due and payable to a
Subordinated Noteholder or the Issuer (as applicable) under or in
relation to the Subordinated Notes against amounts owing by the
Subordinated Noteholder to the Issuer or by the Issuer to the
Subordinated Noteholder (as applicable).
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RANKING OF NOTES IN A WINDING-UP OF THE ISSUER
The table
1
below illustrates how the Notes would rank upon a winding-up of the Issuer, if they are on
issue at the time. In the table, a ‘higher ranking’ obligation is one which will be paid out of the Issuer’s
available assets in a winding-up before obligations with a lower ranking. It may be that lower ranking
securityholders will only have part or none of their obligations paid, as there may be insufficient assets
remaining to do so after higher ranking obligations have been paid.
Type of obligation Examples of obligations/securities
Higher
ranking/
earlier
priority
Secured debt and
liabilities preferred
by law
Senior ranking secured obligations (such as
collateralised liabilities to central banks and
clearing houses).
Liabilities which the Banking Act provides are to
be paid out of the Issuer’s assets in Australia in
priority to liabilities in respect of Notes, including
protected accounts in Australia (such as current
accounts, savings accounts and term deposit
accounts and certain liabilities to APRA and debts
to the RBA); other liabilities preferred in a
winding-up, such as debts due to the RBA, costs
of the winding-up and certain employee
entitlements.
Medium Term
Notes
Unsubordinated
unsecured debt
The Medium Term Notes, other bonds and notes,
trade and general creditors.
(Note: covered bonds are an unsecured claim on
the Issuer but are secured over certain assets).
Subordinated
Notes
Subordinated
unsecured debt
The Subordinated Notes and other Tier 2 Capital
instruments issued by the Issuer.
If a Subordinated Note is Converted, any
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares that a Holder receives
on Conversion will rank equally with other
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares and the Holder will
have no further claim on the Issuer. If a
Subordinated Note is Written-Off, Subordinated
Noteholders have no further claims on the Issuer
or ANZGHL (even though ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares will still be on issue) and they are likely to
be worse off than holders of ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares or of ordinary shares in the Issuer.
Preference shares
and other equally
ranked instruments
Additional Tier 1 Capital instruments (such as
capital notes and convertible preference shares)
and other obligations ranking senior only to
ordinary shares in the Issuer.
2
Lower
ranking/
later
priority
Ordinary shares Ordinary shares in the Issuer.
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This is a very simplified capital structure of the Issuer and does not include every type of security or other obligation issued
by the Issuer. The Issuer has the right to issue further debt, deposits or other obligations or securities of any kind at any
time. The Conditions of the Notes do not limit the amount of senior debt, deposits or other obligations or securities that may
be incurred or issued by the Issuer at any time.
2
APRA has proposed that Additional Tier 1 Capital be phased out from 1 January 2027. See ”Additional Note Risks
(Subordinated Notes)”.
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CONDITIONS OF THE NOTES
The following is the text of the terms and conditions that, subject to completion and amendment and as
supplemented or varied in accordance with the provisions of the relevant Pricing Supplement, shall be
applicable to the Notes of each Series.
Words and expressions defined in the Deed Poll or used in the Pricing Supplement shall have the same
meanings where used in these Conditions unless the context otherwise requires or unless otherwise
stated and provided that, in the event of inconsistency between the Deed Poll and the Pricing
Supplement, the Pricing Supplement will prevail.
The Notes are constituted by a deed poll dated 20 June 2001 as last amended and restated on 17
September 2025 and as further amended and/or supplemented and/or restated as at the Issue Date of
the Notes (the “Deed Poll”) executed by Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (the
“Issuer”) and issued with the benefit of the Registry Services Agreement. Copies of the Registry
Services Agreement, the Deed Poll and the relevant Pricing Supplement are available to the relevant
Holders for inspection at the registered offices of the Issuer and Registrar which are, as at the date
hereof:
Issuer: Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, Level 9, 833 Collins Street,
Docklands, Victoria, 3008, Australia.
Registrar: Austraclear Services Limited, 20 Bridge Street, Sydney, NSW 2000.
The Holders of the Notes and any person claiming through or under a Holder are entitled to the benefit
of, are bound by and are deemed to have notice of all of the provisions contained in the Deed Poll
(including the relevant Pricing Supplement), the Information Memorandum dated 17 September 2025
(including all documents incorporated by reference) and the Registry Services Agreement.
1 Definitions and Interpretation
1.1 Definitions
In these Conditions, unless the context otherwise requires, the following defined terms shall
have the meanings set out below:
Adjustment Spread means the adjustment spread as at the Adjustment Spread Fixing Date
(which may be a positive or negative value or zero and determined pursuant to a formula or
methodology) that is:
(a) determined as the median of the historical differences between the BBSW Rate and
AONIA over a five calendar year period prior to the Adjustment Spread Fixing Date
using practices based on those used for the determination of the Bloomberg
Adjustment Spread as at 1 December 2022, provided that for so long as the
Bloomberg Adjustment Spread is published and determined based on the five year
median of the historical differences between the BBSW Rate and AONIA, that
adjustment spread will be deemed to be acceptable for the purposes of this
paragraph (a); or
(b) if no such median can be determined in accordance with paragraph (a), set using the
method for calculating or determining such adjustment spread determined by the
Calculation Agent (after consultation with the Issuer where practicable) to be
appropriate.
Adjustment Spread Fixing Date means the first date on which a Permanent Discontinuation
Trigger occurs with respect to the BBSW Rate.
Administrator means:
(a) in respect of the BBSW Rate, ASX Benchmarks Pty Limited (ABN 38 616 075 417);
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(b) in respect of AONIA (or where AONIA is used to determine an Applicable Benchmark
Rate), the Reserve Bank of Australia; and
(c) in respect of any other Applicable Benchmark Rate, the administrator for that rate or
benchmark or, if there is no administrator, the provider of that rate or benchmark,
and, in each case, any successor administrator or, as applicable, any successor administrator
or provider.
Administrator Recommended Rate means the rate formally recommended for use as the
temporary replacement for the BBSW Rate by the Administrator of the BBSW Rate.
Aggregate Principal Amount means, in relation to a Tranche of Notes, the amount specified
in the Pricing Supplement or in relation to any Certificate the aggregate Principal Amount of
the Notes to which that Certificate relates.
Alternative Conversion Number means the number which may be specified in the Pricing
Supplement.
Amortisation Yield has the meaning given in Condition 6.4(b) unless otherwise specified in
the Pricing Supplement.
Amortised Face Amount has the meaning given to it in Condition 6.4(b) unless otherwise
specified in the Pricing Supplement.
ANZ Group means ANZGHL and its subsidiaries.
ANZBGL Ordinary Share means a fully paid ordinary share in the capital of the Issuer.
ANZGHL means ANZ Group Holdings Limited (ACN 659 510 791).
ANZGHL Ordinary Share mean a fully paid ordinary share in the capital of ANZGHL.
AONIA means the Australian dollar interbank overnight cash rate (known as AONIA).
AONIA Rate means, for an Interest Period and in respect of an Interest Determination Date,
the rate determined by the Calculation Agent to be Compounded Daily AONIA for that
Interest Period and Interest Determination Date plus, if determining the AONIA Rate for the
purposes of a fallback from the BBSW Rate, the Adjustment Spread.
Applicable Benchmark Rate means the Benchmark Rate specified in the relevant Pricing
Supplement and, if a Permanent Fallback Effective Date has occurred with respect to the
BBSW Rate, AONIA or the RBA Recommended Rate, then the rate determined in
accordance with Condition 5.6.
Approved NOHC means an entity which:
(a) is a non-operating holding company within the meaning of the Banking Act (which
term, as used herein, includes any amendments thereto, rules thereunder and any
successor laws, amendments and rules); and
(b) has agreed for the benefit of Subordinated Noteholders:
(i) to issue fully paid ordinary shares in its capital under all circumstances when
the Issuer would otherwise have been required to Convert a Principal
Amount of Subordinated Notes, subject to the same terms and conditions as
set out in these Conditions (with all necessary modifications); and
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(ii) to use all reasonable endeavours to procure quotation of Approved NOHC
Ordinary Shares issued upon Conversion of relevant Subordinated Notes on
the Australian Securities Exchange.
Approved NOHC Ordinary Share means a fully paid ordinary share in the capital of the
Approved NOHC.
APRA means the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (or any successor organisation).
ASX Listing Rules means the listing rules of the Australian Securities Exchange as
amended, varied or waived (whether in respect of the Issuer, ANZGHL or generally) from
time to time.
ASX Operating Rules means the market operating rules of the Australian Securities
Exchange as amended, varied or waived (whether in respect of the Issuer, ANZGHL or
generally) from time to time.
Austraclear means Austraclear Ltd (ABN 94 002 060 773).
Austraclear Participant means a Participant as defined in the Austraclear Regulations.
Austraclear Regulations means the regulations known as the ‘Austraclear Regulations’
established by Austraclear (as amended from time to time), together with any subsidiary rules
or procedures of Austraclear that govern the use of the Austraclear System.
Austraclear System means the system operated by Austraclear for holding securities and
the electronic recording and settling of transactions in those securities between members of
that system.
Australia means the Commonwealth of Australia.
Australian Dollars and A$ means the lawful currency for the time being of Australia.
Australian Securities Exchange and ASX means ASX Limited (ABN 98 008 624 691) or the
Australian Securities Exchange operated by it (as the context requires).
Banking Act means Banking Act 1959 of Australia.
BBSW Rate means, for an Interest Period, the rate for prime bank eligible securities having a
tenor closest to the Interest Period which is designated as the AVG MID on the ‘Refinitiv
Screen ASX29 Page’ or “MID” rate on the ‘Bloomberg Screen BBSW Page’ (or any
designation which replaces that designation on the applicable page, or any replacement
page) at the Publication Time on the first day of that Interest Period.
Benchmark Rate means, for an Interest Period, either the BBSW Rate or the AONIA Rate as
specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement.
Bloomberg Adjustment Spread means the term adjusted AONIA spread relating to the
BBSW Rate provided by Bloomberg Index Services Limited (or a successor provider as
approved and/or appointed by ISDA from time to time as the provider of term adjusted AONIA
and the spread) (“BISL”) on the Fallback Rate (AONIA) Screen (or by other means), or
provided to, and published by, authorised distributors where “Fallback Rate (AONIA)
Screen” means the Bloomberg Screen corresponding to the Bloomberg ticker for the fallback
for the BBSW Rate accessed via the Bloomberg Screen <FBAK> <GO> Page (or, if
applicable, accessed via the Bloomberg Screen <HP> <GO>) or any other published source
designated by BISL.
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Broken Amount means the amount specified as such in (or calculated in accordance with
the provisions of) the relevant Pricing Supplement as it may be adjusted, in the case of the
Subordinated Notes, in accordance with Condition 7.4.
Business Day means:
(a) for the purposes of Conditions 7 to 10 (inclusive), a day which is a business day
within the meaning of the ASX Listing Rules; and
(b) for all other purposes, any day on which commercial banks are open for general
business in Sydney and in such other places as are specified as “Additional
Financial Centres” in the Pricing Supplement.
Business Day Convention means a convention for adjusting any date if it would otherwise
fall on a day that is not a Business Day and the following Business Day Conventions, where
specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement in relation to any date applicable to any Note,
have the following meanings:
(a) Floating Rate Business Day Convention means that the date is postponed to the
next day that is a Business Day unless it would thereby fall into the next calendar
month, in which event (x) such date shall be brought forward to the immediately
preceding Business Day and (y) each subsequent such date shall be the last
Business Day of the month in which such date would have fallen had it not been
subject to adjustment;
(b) Following Business Day Convention means that the date is postponed to the first
following day that is a Business Day;
(c) Modified Following Business Day Convention or “Modified Business Day
Convention” means that the date is postponed to the first following day that is a
Business Day unless that day falls in the next calendar month in which case that date
is the first preceding day that is a Business Day; and
(d) Preceding Business Day Convention means that the date is brought forward to the
first preceding day that is a Business Day.
Where no Business Day Convention is specified in a relevant Pricing Supplement, it shall be
deemed to be the Modified Following Business Day Convention.
Calculation Agent means, in respect of a Tranche of Notes, the person specified as the
Calculation Agent in the relevant Pricing Supplement. The Calculation Agent must be the
same for all Notes in a Series.
Certificate means a certificate confirming registered ownership of a Note.
CHESS means the Clearing House Electronic Subregister System operated by the Australian
Securities Exchange, or its affiliates or successors.
Code means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
Compounded Daily AONIA means, with respect to an Interest Period, the rate of return of a
daily compound interest investment as calculated by the Calculation Agent on the Interest
Determination Date, as follows:
[∏(1+
퐴푂푁퐼퐴
푖−5 푆퐵퐷
×푛
푖
365
)−1
푑
0
푖=1
]×
365
푑
where:
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푨푶푵푰푨
풊−ퟓ푺푩푫
means the per annum rate expressed as a decimal which is the level of
AONIA provided by the Administrator and published as of the Publication Time for the
Sydney Business Day falling five Sydney Business Days prior to such Sydney
Business Day “푖";
풅 is the number of calendar days in the relevant Interest Period;
풅
ퟎ
is the number of Sydney Business Days in the relevant Interest Period;
풊 is a series of whole numbers from 1 to 풅
ퟎ
, each representing the relevant Sydney
Business Day in chronological order from (and including) the first Sydney Business
Day in the relevant Interest Period to (and including) the last Sydney Business Day in
such Interest Period;
풏
풊
for any Sydney Business Day “푖", means the number of calendar days from (and
including) such Sydney Business Day “푖" up to (but excluding) the following Sydney
Business Day; and
Sydney Business Day or 푺푩푫 means any day on which commercial banks are open
for general business in Sydney.
If, for any reason, Compounded Daily AONIA needs to be determined for a period other than
an Interest Period, Compounded Daily AONIA is to be determined as if that period were an
Interest Period starting on (and including) the first day of that period and ending on (but
excluding) the last day of that period.
Condition means the correspondingly numbered condition in these terms and conditions.
Control has the meaning given in the Corporations Act.
Conversion means, in relation to a Subordinated Note, the allotment and issue of ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares and the termination of the holder’s rights in relation to the relevant Principal
Amount of that Subordinated Note, in each case in accordance with the Schedule to these
Conditions, and Convert, Converting and Converted have corresponding meanings.
Conversion Number has the meaning given to it in Section 1(b) of the Schedule to these
Conditions.
Corporations Act means the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) of Australia.
Day Count Fraction means, in relation to the calculation of an amount of interest on any
Note for any period of time (from and including the first day of such period to but excluding
the last) (whether or not constituting an Interest Accrual Period, the Calculation Period):
(a) if Actual/360 is specified in the Pricing Supplement, the actual number of days in the
Calculation Period divided by 360;
(b) if Actual/365 or Actual/Actual is specified in the Pricing Supplement, the actual
number of days in the Calculation Period divided by 365 (or, if any portion of that
Calculation Period falls in a leap year, the sum of (A) the actual number of days in
that portion of the Calculation Period falling in a leap year divided by 366 and (B) the
actual number of days in that portion of the Calculation Period falling in a non-leap
year divided by 365);
(c) if Actual/365 (fixed) is specified in the Pricing Supplement, the actual number of
days in the Calculation Period divided by 365;
(d) if Actual/Actual (ICMA) is specified in the Pricing Supplement:
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(i) if the Calculation Period is equal to or shorter than the Determination Period
during which it falls, the number of days in the Calculation Period divided by
the product of:
(A) the number of days in such Determination Period; and
(B) the number of Determination Periods normally ending in any year;
and
(ii) if the Calculation Period is longer than one Determination Period, the sum of:
(A) the number of days in such Calculation Period falling in the
Determination Period in which it begins divided by the product of (1)
the number of days in such Determination Period and (2) the number
of Determination Periods normally ending in any year; and
(B) the number of days in such Calculation Period falling in the next
Determination Period divided by the product of (1) the number of
days in such Determination Period and (2) the number of
Determination Periods normally ending in any year,
where:
Determination Period means the period from and including an Interest
Payment Date in any year to but excluding the next Interest Payment Date;
(e) if 30/360 is specified in the Pricing Supplement, the number of days in the
Calculation Period divided by 360 (the number of days to be calculated on the basis
of a year of 360 days with 12 30-day months); and
(f) if RBA Bond Basis is specified in the Pricing Supplement, one divided by the
number of Interest Payment Dates in a year.
Deed of Undertaking means the deed poll made by ANZGHL in favour of Subordinated
Noteholders on or about 9 August 2023 (as amended, modified or supplemented from time to
time).
Deed Poll means the deed poll dated 20 June 2001 as last amended and restated on 17
September 2025 and as further amended and/or supplemented and/or restated as at the
Issue Date of the Notes, executed by the Issuer.
Director means a director of the Issuer.
Early Redemption Amount means the amount which may be payable in respect of a Note
which is, in relation to a Note other than a Zero Coupon Note, its Principal Amount or, in
relation to a Zero Coupon Note, as specified in Condition 6.4, unless otherwise specified as
such in (or calculated or determined in accordance with the provisions of) the relevant Pricing
Supplement.
Equal Ranking Securities means any present or future instrument that ranks in a winding-up
of the Issuer as the most junior claim in the winding-up of the Issuer ranking senior to Junior
Ranking Securities, and includes any instruments issued as Relevant Tier 2 Securities.
Event of Default in respect of Medium Term Notes, has the meaning given in Condition 15.1
and, in respect of Subordinated Notes, has the meaning given in Condition 15.2.
Extraordinary Resolution has the meaning given to it in the Meeting Provisions.
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Fallback Rate means, where a Permanent Discontinuation Trigger for an Applicable
Benchmark Rate has occurred, the rate that applies to replace that Applicable Benchmark
Rate in accordance with Condition 5.6.
FATCA means:
(a) Sections 1471-1474 of the Code (or any amended or successor version to the Code)
and any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof;
(b) any U.S. or non-U.S. fiscal or regulatory legislation, rules, guidance or practices
adopted pursuant to any intergovernmental agreement entered into in connection
with the implementation of either such sections of the Code or analogous provisions
of non-U.S. law; or
(c) any agreement pursuant to the implementation of paragraphs (a) or (b) above with
the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. government or any governmental or
taxation authority in any other jurisdiction.
FATCA Withholding means any deduction or withholding made for or on account of FATCA.
Final Fallback Rate means, in respect of an Applicable Benchmark Rate, the rate:
(a) determined by the Calculation Agent as a commercially reasonable alternative for the
Applicable Benchmark Rate taking into account all available information that, in good
faith, it considers relevant, provided that any rate (inclusive of any spreads or
adjustments) implemented by central counterparties and / or futures exchanges with
representative trade volumes in derivatives or futures referencing the Applicable
Benchmark Rate will be deemed to be acceptable for the purposes of this paragraph
(a), together with (without double counting) such adjustment spread (which may be a
positive or negative value or zero) that is customarily applied to the relevant
successor rate or alternative rate (as the case may be) in international debt capital
markets transactions to produce an industry-accepted replacement rate for
Benchmark Rate-linked floating rate notes at such time (together with such other
adjustments to the Business Day Convention, interest determination dates and
related provisions and definitions, in each case that are consistent with accepted
market practice for the use of such successor rate or alternative rate for Benchmark
Rate-linked floating rate notes at such time), or, if no such industry standard is
recognised or acknowledged, the method for calculating or determining such
adjustment spread determined by the Calculation Agent (in consultation with the
Issuer) to be appropriate; provided that
(b) if and for so long as no such successor rate or alternative rate can be determined in
accordance with paragraph (a), the Final Fallback Rate will be the last provided or
published level of that Applicable Benchmark Rate.
Final Redemption Amount means the amount payable in respect of a Note which is its
Principal Amount unless otherwise specified as such in (or calculated in accordance with the
provisions of) the relevant Pricing Supplement.
Fixed Coupon Amount means the amount specified as such in (or calculated in accordance
with the provisions of) the relevant Pricing Supplement as it may be adjusted, in the case of
the Subordinated Notes, in accordance with Condition 7.4.
Fixed Rate Note means a Note that bears interest at a fixed rate specified in the relevant
Pricing Supplement.
Floating Rate Note means a Note that bears interest at a floating rate specified in the
relevant Pricing Supplement.
Foreign Holder has the meaning given in Condition 8.4.
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Holder means:
(a) in respect of Subordinated Notes only and only for so long as such Subordinated
Notes are held in the Austraclear System, for the purposes of determining the person
entitled to be issued ANZGHL Ordinary Shares (or, where Condition 8.4 applies, the
net proceeds of sale of such shares) and the amount of their entitlements, a person
who is an Austraclear Participant; and
(b) otherwise, in relation to any Note, a person whose name is for the time being
recorded in the Register to signify ownership of the Note. If the Note is owned jointly
by more than one person, a Holder includes a person whose name appears in the
Register as a joint owner.
Inability Event shall mean the Issuer or ANZGHL is prevented by applicable law or order of
any court or action of any government authority (including regarding the insolvency, winding-
up or other external administration of the Issuer or ANZGHL) or any other reason from
performing any of their obligations necessary to effect the Conversion of any Subordinated
Notes.
Index means the index applying to a Note, as specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement.
Index Linked Interest Note means a Note (other than a Subordinated Note) that bears
interest at a rate calculated by reference to an Index.
Index Linked Notes means an Index Linked Interest Note or an Index Linked Redemption
Note.
Index Linked Redemption Note means a Note (other than a Subordinated Note) the Early
or Final Redemption Amount in respect of which is calculated by reference to an Index.
Instalment Amount means the amount specified as such in (or calculated in accordance
with the provisions of) the relevant Pricing Supplement.
Interest Accrual Period means the period beginning on (and including) the Interest
Commencement Date and ending on (but excluding) the first Interest Period Date and each
successive period beginning on (and including) an Interest Period Date and ending on (but
excluding) the next succeeding Interest Period Date during the relevant Interest Period,
except that the last Interest Accrual Period ends on (and excludes) the Maturity Date or the
date of any earlier redemption of a Note in accordance with the Conditions.
Interest Amount means the amount of interest payable in respect of a Note, and in the case
of Fixed Rate Notes, also means the Fixed Coupon Amount or Broken Amount, as the case
may be, so specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement and, in the case of the Subordinated
Notes, as it may be adjusted in accordance with Condition 7.4.
Interest Basis means the interest basis specified as such in the relevant Pricing Supplement.
Interest Commencement Date means the Issue Date in respect of Notes or such other date
as may be specified in the Pricing Supplement.
Interest Determination Date means, in respect of an Interest Period:
(a) where the BBSW Rate applies or the Final Fallback Rate applies under Condition
5.6(f)(iii) (BBSW and AONIA Benchmark Rate fallback), the first day of that Interest
Period; and
(b) otherwise, the fifth Business Day prior to the last day of that Interest Period.
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Interest Payment Date means the date or dates specified as such in, or determined in
accordance with the provisions of, the relevant Pricing Supplement and adjusted, if not a
Business Day, in accordance with the applicable Business Day Convention.
Interest Period means the period beginning on (and including) the Interest Commencement
Date and ending on (but excluding) the first Interest Payment Date and each successive
period beginning on (and including) an Interest Payment Date and ending on (but excluding)
the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, except that the final Interest Period ends on (but
excludes) the Maturity Date or any other period specified in the Pricing Supplement.
Interest Period Date means each Interest Payment Date unless otherwise specified in the
Pricing Supplement.
Issue Date means the date of issue of the Notes as specified in or determined in accordance
with the relevant Pricing Supplement.
Issue Date VWAP has the meaning given in the Schedule to these Conditions.
Issue Price means the issue price for the Notes specified in, calculated in or determined in
accordance with the provisions of the Pricing Supplement.
Issuer means Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ABN 11 005 357 522).
Junior Ranking Securities means any present or future instrument:
(a) issued as Tier 1 Capital; and
(b) that by its terms is, or is expressed to be, subordinated in a winding-up of the Issuer
to the claims of Subordinated Noteholders and other Equal Ranking Securities.
Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 means those terms as defined by APRA from time to time.
Margin means the margin specified as such in the relevant Pricing Supplement.
Maturity Date means the maturity date specified in, or determined in accordance with the
provisions of, the relevant Pricing Supplement and as recorded in the Register.
Maximum Rate of Interest means the maximum interest rate (if any) specified in, or
calculated or determined in accordance with the provisions of the relevant Pricing
Supplement.
Maximum Redemption Amount means the amount specified as such in (or calculated in
accordance with the provisions of) the relevant Pricing Supplement.
Medium Term Note means an unsubordinated note, being a debt obligation of the Issuer
owing to a Holder, the details of which are identified in the Register, and as more fully
described in Condition 3.1.
Meeting Provisions means the provisions for the convening of meetings of, and passing of
resolutions by, Holders set out in Schedule 2 of the Deed Poll.
Minimum Rate of Interest means the minimum interest rate (if any) specified in, or
calculated or determined in accordance with the provisions of the relevant Pricing
Supplement.
Minimum Redemption Amount means the amount specified as such in (or calculated in
accordance with the provisions of) the relevant Pricing Supplement.
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Non-Representative means, in respect of an Applicable Benchmark Rate, that the
Supervisor of that Applicable Benchmark Rate if the Applicable Benchmark Rate is the BBSW
Rate, or the Administrator of the Applicable Benchmark Rate if the Applicable Benchmark
Rate is the AONIA Rate or the RBA Recommended Rate:
(a) has determined that such Applicable Benchmark Rate is no longer, or as of a
specified future date will no longer be, representative of the underlying market and
economic reality that such Applicable Benchmark Rate is intended to measure and
that representativeness will not be restored; and
(b) is aware that such determination will engage certain contractual triggers for fallbacks
activated by pre-cessation announcements by such Supervisor (howsoever
described) in contracts.
Non-Viability Determination has the meaning given in Condition 7.2.
Non-Viability Trigger Event has the meaning given in Condition 7.2.
Note means either a Medium Term Note or a Subordinated Note, and, in these Conditions,
references to Notes are references to Notes of the relevant Series.
Noteholder means the Holder of a Note.
Offshore Associate means an associate (as defined in section 128F of the Income Tax
Assessment Act 1936 (Cth) of Australia) of the Issuer that is either a non-resident of Australia
which does not acquire the Notes in carrying on a business at or through a permanent
establishment in Australia or, alternatively, a resident of Australia that acquires the Notes in
carrying on business at or through a permanent establishment outside of Australia.
Optional Redemption Amount means the amount specified as such in (or calculated in
accordance with the provisions of) the relevant Pricing Supplement as it may be adjusted, in
the case of the Subordinated Notes, in accordance with Condition 7.4.
Optional Redemption Date means the date or dates specified as such in the relevant
Pricing Supplement.
outstanding means in relation to the Notes of any Series, all the Notes issued other than:
(a) those that have been redeemed in accordance with the Conditions;
(b) those which have become void or in respect of which claims have become
prescribed;
(c) those which have been purchased and cancelled as provided for in the Conditions;
and
(d) to the extent Converted or Written-Off.
Permanent Discontinuation Trigger means, in respect of an Applicable Benchmark Rate:
(a) a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the Administrator of
the Applicable Benchmark Rate announcing that it has ceased or that it will cease to
provide the Applicable Benchmark Rate permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at
the time of the statement or publication, there is no successor administrator or
provider, as applicable, that will continue to provide the Applicable Benchmark Rate
and, in the case of the BBSW Rate, a public statement or publication of information
by or on behalf of the Supervisor of the BBSW Rate has confirmed that cessation;
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(b) a public statement or publication of information by the Supervisor of the Applicable
Benchmark Rate, the Reserve Bank of Australia (or any successor central bank for
Australian Dollars), an insolvency official or resolution authority with jurisdiction over
the Administrator of the Applicable Benchmark Rate or a court or an entity with
similar insolvency or resolution authority over the Administrator of the Applicable
Benchmark Rate which states that the Administrator of the Applicable Benchmark
Rate has ceased or will cease to provide the Applicable Benchmark Rate
permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of the statement or publication,
there is no successor administrator or provider that will continue to provide the
Applicable Benchmark Rate and, in the case of the BBSW Rate and a public
statement or publication of information other than by the Supervisor, a public
statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the Supervisor of the BBSW
Rate has confirmed that cessation;
(c) a public statement by the Supervisor of the Applicable Benchmark Rate if the
Applicable Benchmark Rate is the BBSW Rate, or the Administrator of the Applicable
Benchmark Rate if the Applicable Benchmark Rate is the AONIA Rate or the RBA
Recommended Rate, as a consequence of which the Applicable Benchmark Rate will
be prohibited from being used either generally, or in respect of the Notes, or that its
use will be subject to restrictions or adverse consequences to the Issuer or a
Noteholder;
(d) as a consequence of a change in law or directive arising after the Issue Date of the
first Tranche of Notes of a Series, it has become unlawful for the Calculation Agent,
the Issuer or any other party responsible for calculations of interest under the
Conditions to calculate any payments due to be made to any Noteholder using the
Applicable Benchmark Rate;
(e) a public statement or publication of information by the Supervisor of the Applicable
Benchmark Rate if the Applicable Benchmark Rate is the BBSW Rate, or the
Administrator of the Applicable Benchmark Rate if the Applicable Benchmark Rate is
the AONIA Rate or the RBA Recommended Rate, stating that the Applicable
Benchmark Rate is Non-Representative; or
(f) the Applicable Benchmark Rate has otherwise ceased to exist or be administered on
a permanent or indefinite basis.
Permanent Fallback Effective Date means, in respect of a Permanent Discontinuation
Trigger for an Applicable Benchmark Rate:
(a) in the case of paragraphs (a) and (b) of the definition of Permanent Discontinuation
Trigger, the first date on which the Applicable Benchmark Rate would ordinarily have
been published or provided and is no longer published or provided;
(b) in the case of paragraphs (c) and (d) of the definition of Permanent Discontinuation
Trigger, the date from which use of the Applicable Benchmark Rate is prohibited or
becomes subject to restrictions or adverse consequences or the calculation becomes
unlawful (as applicable);
(c) in the case of paragraph (e) of the definition of Permanent Discontinuation Trigger,
the first date on which the Applicable Benchmark Rate would ordinarily have been
published or provided but is Non-Representative by reference to the most recent
statement or publication contemplated in that paragraph and even if such Applicable
Benchmark Rates continues to be published or provided on such date; or
(d) in the case of paragraph (f) of the definition of Permanent Discontinuation Trigger,
the date that event occurs.
Pricing Supplement means the pricing supplement document prepared in relation to the
Notes of the relevant Tranche.
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Principal Amount means the notional principal amount of each Note which will, unless
indicated otherwise or, in the case of the Subordinated Notes, as provided in Condition 7.4,
be the same amount as the Specified Denomination of each Note so specified in the
relevant Pricing Supplement.
Programme means the Australian Dollar Debt Issuance Programme of the Issuer providing
for the issue of Notes by the Issuer.
Publication Time:
(a) in respect of the BBSW Rate, 12.00noon (Sydney time) or any amended publication
time for the final intraday refix of such rate specified by the Administrator for the
BBSW Rate in its benchmark methodology;
(b) in respect of AONIA, 4.00pm (Sydney time) or any amended publication time for the
final intraday refix of such rate specified by the Administrator for AONIA in its
benchmark methodology; and
(c) in all other respects, means the Relevant Time or such other time at which a
Reference Rate customarily appears on the Relevant Screen Page.
Rate Multiplier means the rate multiplier specified as such in the relevant Pricing
Supplement.
Rate of Interest means, in respect of a Note, the interest rate (expressed as a percentage
rate per annum) payable in respect of that Note specified in the Pricing Supplement or
calculated or determined in accordance with these Conditions and the Pricing Supplement.
RBA Recommended Fallback Rate means, for an Interest Period and in respect of an
Interest Determination Date, the rate determined by the Calculation Agent to be the RBA
Recommended Rate for that Interest Period and Interest Determination Date.
RBA Recommended Rate means, in respect of any relevant day (including any day i), the
rate (inclusive of any spreads or adjustments) recommended as the replacement for AONIA
by the Reserve Bank of Australia (which rate may be produced by the Reserve Bank of
Australia or another administrator) and as provided by the Administrator of that rate or, if that
rate is not provided by the Administrator thereof, published by an authorised distributor in
respect of that day.
Record Date means, in the case of payments of interest or principal, the date specified in
relevant Pricing Supplement, prior to the relevant payment date.
Reference Banks means the institutions specified as such in the Pricing Supplement or, if
none, four major banks selected by the Calculation Agent in the interbank market (or, if
appropriate, money, swap or over-the-counter index options market) that is most closely
connected with the Reference Rate specified in the Pricing Supplement.
Reference Rate means the Applicable Benchmark Rate or the rate, if any, specified in the
relevant Pricing Supplement or any Successor Rate or Alternative Rate which has been
determined in relation to such rate pursuant to the operation of Condition 5.
Reference Rate Disruption Event has the meaning given in Condition 5.4.
Register means the register of Holders maintained by the Registrar in accordance with the
Registry Services Agreement or such other relevant agreement between the Registrar and
the Issuer.
Registrar means Austraclear Services Limited (ABN 28 003 284 419) or such other person
appointed and notified by the Issuer.
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Registry Office means the following office of the Registrar: 20 Bridge Street, Sydney, NSW
2000 or such other place notified by the Issuer or the Registrar.
Registry Services Agreement means the Registry Services Agreement dated 4 August
2010 as amended from time to time, between the Registrar and the Issuer.
Regulatory Capital shall mean a Tier 1 Capital Security or a Tier 2 Capital Security.
Regulatory Event has the meaning given in Condition 6.3.
Related Conversion Steps has the meaning given in Section 1(f) of the Schedule to these
Conditions.
Related Entity has the meaning given by APRA from time to time.
Relevant Date in respect of any Note means the date on which payment in respect of it first
becomes due or (if any amount of the money payable is improperly withheld or refused) the
date on which payment in full of the amount outstanding is made or (if earlier) the date seven
days after that on which notice is duly given to the Holders that such payment will be made,
provided that payment is in fact made.
Relevant Financial Centre means, with respect to any Floating Rate Note to be determined
in accordance with Screen Rate Determination on an Interest Determination Date the
financial centre specified as such in the Pricing Supplement or, if none is so specified, the
financial centre with which the relevant Reference Rate is most closely connected.
Relevant Screen Page means the page specified as such in the relevant Pricing
Supplement.
Relevant Securities means each of the:
(a) Relevant Tier 1 Securities; and
(b) Relevant Tier 2 Securities.
Relevant Tier 1 Security means, where a Non-Viability Trigger Event occurs, a Tier 1
Capital Security that, in accordance with its terms or by operation of law, is capable of being
converted into ANZGHL Ordinary Shares or written-off upon the occurrence of that event.
Relevant Tier 2 Security means, where a Non-Viability Trigger Event occurs, a Tier 2
Capital Security that, in accordance with its terms or by operation of law, is capable of being
converted into ANZGHL Ordinary Shares or written-off upon the occurrence of that event.
Relevant Time means, with respect to any Interest Determination Date, the relevant time
specified in the Pricing Supplement.
Reserve Bank Act means Reserve Bank Act 1959 of Australia.
Residual Redemption Amount means the outstanding Principal Amount calculated at the
relevant Residual Redemption Date.
Residual Redemption Date means the date specified as such in the relevant notice of
redemption, provided that such date is an Interest Payment Date.
Screen Rate Determination has the meaning specified in the Pricing Supplement and in
Condition 5.3.
Senior Creditors means all present and future creditors of the Issuer (including but not
limited to depositors of the Issuer) whose claims:
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(a) would be entitled to be admitted in the winding-up of the Issuer; and
(b) are not in respect of Equal Ranking Securities or Junior Ranking Securities.
Series means a Tranche of Notes together with any further Tranche or Tranches of Notes
which are:
(a) expressed to be consolidated and form a single Series; and
(b) identical in all respects (including as to listing) except for the respective Issue Dates,
Interest Commencement Dates, Issue Prices or amounts of the first payment of
interest.
Solvent means at any time in respect of the Issuer:
(a) it is able to pay all its debts as and when they become due and payable; and
(b) its assets exceed its liabilities, in each case determined on an unconsolidated stand-
alone basis.
Specified Denomination means the amount specified as such in (or calculated in
accordance with the provisions of) the relevant Pricing Supplement as it may be adjusted, in
the case of the Subordinated Notes, in accordance with Condition 7.4.
Subordinated Note means a subordinated medium term note, being a debt obligation of the
Issuer owing to a Holder, the details of which are identified in the Register, and as more fully
described in Condition 3.2.
Subordinated Noteholder means the Holder of a Subordinated Note.
Successor Reference Rate has the meaning given in Condition 5.4.
Supervisor means, in respect of an Applicable Benchmark Rate, the supervisor or
competent authority that is responsible for supervising that Applicable Benchmark Rate or the
Administrator of that Applicable Benchmark Rate, or any committee officially endorsed or
convened by any such supervisor or competent authority that is responsible for supervising
that Applicable Benchmark Rate or the Administrator of that Applicable Benchmark Rate.
Supervisor Recommended Rate means the rate formally recommended for use as the
temporary replacement for the BBSW Rate by the Supervisor of the BBSW Rate.
Taxes has the meaning given in Condition 13.1.
Temporary Disruption Trigger means, in respect of any Applicable Benchmark Rate which
is required for any determination:
(a) the Applicable Benchmark Rate has not been published by the applicable
Administrator or an authorised distributor and is not otherwise provided by the
Administrator, in respect of, on, for or by the time and date on which that Applicable
Benchmark Rate is required; or
(b) the Applicable Benchmark Rate is published or provided but the Calculation Agent
determines that there is an obvious or proven error in that rate.
Tier 1 Capital means the Tier 1 capital of the Issuer (on a Level 1 basis) or the ANZ Group
(on a Level 2 basis or, if applicable, a Level 3 basis) as defined by APRA from time to time.
Tier 1 Capital Security means a share, note or other security or instrument constituting
Tier 1 Capital.
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Tier 2 Capital means Tier 2 capital of the Issuer (on a Level 1 basis) or the ANZ Group (on a
Level 2 basis or, if applicable, a Level 3 basis) as defined by APRA from time to time.
Tier 2 Capital Security means a note or other security or instrument constituting Tier 2
Capital.
Tranche means Notes that are identical in all respects (including as to listing).
Transferee has the meaning given to it in Condition 10.2(c).
Trigger Event Date means the date (whether or not a Business Day) on which APRA notifies
the Issuer of a Non-Viability Trigger Event as contemplated in Condition 7.2.
Trigger Event Notice has the meaning given to it in Condition 7.3.
U.S. means the United States.
VWAP has the meaning given in the Schedule to these Conditions.
Written-Off
(a) where Condition 8 applies, has the meaning given to it in Condition 8.7; and
(b) where Conditions 9 applies, has the meaning given to it in Condition 9.2.
Zero Coupon Note means a Note (other than a Subordinated Note) that does not bear
interest.
1.2 Interpretations
In these Conditions unless the contrary intention appears:
(a) a reference to Conditions is a reference to these Conditions as supplemented,
modified or altered by the relevant Pricing Supplement;
(b) a reference to a statute, ordinance, code or other law includes regulations and other
instruments under it and consolidations, amendments, re-enactments or
replacements of any of them;
(c) the singular includes the plural and vice versa;
(d) the word “person” incorporates a firm, body corporate, an unincorporated
association or an authority;
(e) a reference to a person incorporates references to the person’s executors,
administrators, successors, substitutes (including, without limitation, persons taking
by novation) and assigns;
(f) a reference to any thing (including, without limitation, any amount) is a reference to
the whole and each part of it and a reference to a group of persons is a reference to
all of them collectively, to any two or more of them collectively and to each of them
individually;
(g) unless otherwise specified to the contrary, any reference to a particular time is a
reference to Sydney time;
(h) headings are inserted for convenience and do not affect the interpretation of these
Conditions;
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(i) all references to the issue or issuance of Notes are to the issue of Notes by the
Issuer;
(j) any provisions which refer to the requirements of APRA or any other prudential
regulatory requirements will apply to the Issuer only if the Issuer is an entity, or the
holding company of an entity, or is a direct or indirect subsidiary of an Approved
NOHC, subject to regulation and supervision by APRA at the relevant time;
(k) any provisions which require APRA’s consent or approval will apply only if APRA
requires that such consent or approval be given at the relevant time;
(l) any provisions in these Conditions requiring the prior approval of APRA for a
particular course of action to be taken by the Issuer do not imply that APRA has
given its consent or approval to the particular action as of the Issue Date of the
applicable Note;
(m) a reference to any term defined by APRA (including, without limitation, “Level 1”,
“Level 2”, “Level 3”, “Tier 1 Capital” and “Tier 2 Capital”) shall, if that term is replaced
or superseded in any of APRA’s applicable prudential regulatory requirements or
standards, be taken to be a reference to the replacement or equivalent term;
(n) the terms takeover bid, relevant interest and scheme of arrangement when used in
these Conditions have the meaning given in the Corporations Act;
(o) for the avoidance of doubt, if Conversion under Condition 8 or Write-Off under
Condition 9 of Subordinated Notes is to occur on a Trigger Event Date, then that
Conversion or Write-Off must occur on that date notwithstanding that it may not be a
Business Day;
(p) a reference to a term defined by the ASX Listing Rules or the ASX Operating Rules
shall, if that term is replaced in those rules, be taken to be a reference to the
replacement term; and
(q) in respect of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares, if the principal securities exchange on which
the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares are listed becomes other than the Australian
Securities Exchange, unless the context otherwise requires a reference to the
Australian Securities Exchange shall be read as a reference to that principal
securities exchange and a reference to the ASX Listing Rules, the ASX Operating
Rules or any term defined in any such rules, shall be read as a reference to the
corresponding rules of that exchange or corresponding defined terms in such rules
(as the case may be).
2 Form, Denomination and Title
2.1 Constitution
The Notes are registered debt obligations of the Issuer constituted by and owing under the
Deed Poll. The obligations of the Issuer in respect of these Conditions and the relevant
Pricing Supplement extend to each individual Note and, following on from that, the Holder of
each Note without the Holder having to join forces with any other Holder or any predecessor
in title of that Holder of a Note.
2.2 Title
Entry of the name of the person purchasing a Note, or the transferee of a Note on the
Register at the relevant time will constitute the passing of title of that Note and will be
conclusive evidence of that person’s entitlements to receive interest and repayment of
principal in the manner provided for in these Conditions (subject to rectification for fraud or
error). A Note registered in the name of more than one person is held by those persons as
joint tenants (unless requested otherwise and in a form satisfactory to the Issuer). Notes will
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be registered by name only without reference to any trusteeship. Neither the Issuer nor the
Registrar is, except as required by law, obliged to take notice of any other claim to a Note.
2.3 Independent Obligations
Each entry in the Register constitutes the separate and individual title of the Holder to the
indebtedness of the Issuer to that relevant Holder.
2.4 Location of Register
The Register will be established and maintained by the Registrar at its Registry Office unless
otherwise specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement.
2.5 Denomination
(a) Notes are issued in the Specified Denominations specified in the Pricing Supplement.
Notes may only be sold in Australia if the aggregate consideration payable to the
Issuer by the purchaser is at least A$500,000 (disregarding moneys lent by the
Issuer or its associates) or if the Notes are otherwise sold in a manner which does
not require disclosure to investors in accordance with Part 6D.2 and Chapter 7 of the
Corporations Act.
(b) Notes may only be issued by the Issuer in a jurisdiction or jurisdictions other than
Australia if the issue is in compliance with the laws of the jurisdiction in which the
issue or sale is made and the Notes are otherwise issued or sold in a manner that
does not require disclosure to investors under the laws of that jurisdiction or those
jurisdictions.
2.6 Austraclear
If Notes are lodged in the Austraclear System, the Registrar will enter Austraclear in the
Register as the Holder of those Notes. While those Notes remain in the Austraclear System,
all dealings (including transfers and payments) in relation to those Notes within the
Austraclear System will be governed by the Austraclear Regulations and need not comply
with these Conditions to the extent of any inconsistency provided that, in respect of
Subordinated Notes, the Austraclear Regulations do not override these Conditions if it would
impact the eligibility of the Subordinated Notes as Tier 2 Capital.
2.7 Certificates
No certificate or other evidence of title will be issued by or on behalf of the Issuer to evidence
title to a Note unless the Issuer determines that such certificates should be made available or
it is required to do so pursuant to any applicable law or regulation.
2.8 Acknowledgment
Where Austraclear is recorded in the Register as the Holder, each person in whose Security
Record (as defined in the Austraclear Regulations) that Note is recorded is deemed to
acknowledge in favour of the Registrar and Austraclear that:
(a) the Registrar’s decision to act as the Registrar of the Note does not constitute a
recommendation or endorsement by the Registrar or Austraclear in relation to the
Note but only indicates that such Note is considered by the Registrar to be
compatible with the performance by it of its obligations as Registrar under its
agreement with the Issuer to act as Registrar of the Note; and
(b) the Holder does not rely on any fact, matter or circumstance contrary to Condition
2.8(a).
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2.9 Australian Securities Exchange Listing
Notes which are listed on the Australian Securities Exchange will not be transferred through
or registered on CHESS and will not be CHESS approved securities. In the event that an
interface between the Register maintained by the Registrar and CHESS is established the
Conditions and any other Programme documents may be amended to facilitate settlement on
CHESS and so that the Notes will become CHESS approved securities.
3 Status
The Notes may be Medium Term Notes or Subordinated Notes as specified in the applicable
Pricing Supplement.
The Notes are not a deposit liability or protected account for the purposes of the Banking Act
and do not otherwise benefit from a priority under the Banking Act or other applicable law.
3.1 Medium Term Notes
The Medium Term Notes constitute senior, direct, unconditional and unsecured obligations of
the Issuer and rank pari passu among themselves and pari passu with all other present and
future unsubordinated and unsecured obligations of the Issuer (save for certain liabilities
mandatorily preferred by law including, but not limited to, amounts given priority under the
Banking Act and the Reserve Bank Act).
The Medium Term Notes rank senior to the Issuer's subordinated obligations, including the
Subordinated Notes.
The Medium Term Notes are not a deposit liability or protected account for the purposes of
the Banking Act and do not otherwise benefit from a priority under the Banking Act or other
applicable law.
3.2 Subordinated Notes
The Subordinated Notes constitute direct and unsecured subordinated obligations of the
Issuer and, unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement and subject to
Conditions 7 to 9 (inclusive), rank pari passu among themselves and with Equal Ranking
Securities. In the event of the winding-up of the Issuer (see Condition 16) and prior to the
commencement of the winding-up of the Issuer (see Condition 5.16), the principal amount of,
any interest on, and any other payments, including additional amounts, in respect of the
Subordinated Notes will rank behind all claims of Senior Creditors and subject to Conditions 7
to 9 (inclusive), pari passu with Equal Ranking Securities and ahead of Junior Ranking
Securities.
Neither the Issuer nor a Subordinated Noteholder has any contractual right to set off any sum
at any time due and payable to a Subordinated Noteholder or the Issuer (as applicable) under
or in relation to the Subordinated Notes against amounts owing by the Subordinated
Noteholder to the Issuer or by the Issuer to the Subordinated Noteholder (as applicable).
The Subordinated Notes do not limit the amount of liabilities ranking senior to the
Subordinated Notes that may be hereafter incurred or assumed by the Issuer.
The Subordinated Notes are not a deposit liability of the Issuer or protected account for the
purposes of the Banking Act and do not otherwise benefit from a priority under the Banking
Act or other applicable law.
4 Interest and other calculations
4.1 Interest on Fixed Rate Notes
Each Fixed Rate Note bears interest on its outstanding Principal Amount from, and including,
the Interest Commencement Date at the rate per annum (expressed as a percentage) equal
to the Rate of Interest, such interest being payable in arrear on each Interest Payment Date.
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If a Fixed Coupon Amount or a Broken Amount is specified in the applicable Pricing
Supplement, the amount of interest payable on each Interest Payment Date will amount to
the Fixed Coupon Amount or, if applicable, the Broken Amount so specified and in the case
of the Broken Amount will be payable on the particular Interest Payment Date(s) specified in
the applicable Pricing Supplement.
5 Interest on Floating Rate Notes and Index Linked Interest
Notes
5.1 Interest Payment Dates:
Each Floating Rate Note and Index Linked Interest Note bears interest on its outstanding
Principal Amount from the Interest Commencement Date at the rate per annum (expressed
as a percentage) equal to the Rate of Interest, such interest being payable in arrear on each
Interest Payment Date. Such Interest Payment Date(s) is/are either specified in the Pricing
Supplement as the Interest Payment Dates or, if no Interest Payment Date(s) are specified,
Interest Payment Date shall mean each date which falls the number of months or other period
shown in the Pricing Supplement as the Interest Period after the preceding Interest Payment
Date or, the case of the first Interest Payment Date, after the Interest Commencement Date.
5.2 Rate of Interest for Floating Rate Notes
The Rate of Interest in respect of Floating Rate Notes for each Interest Accrual Period shall
be determined by the Calculation Agent in the manner specified in the Pricing Supplement
and the provisions below relating to Screen Rate Determination, BBSW Rate Determination
and or AONIA Rate Determination shall apply (as the case may be and as amended by the
Pricing Supplement).
5.3 Screen Rate Determination
(a) If Screen Rate Determination is specified in the Pricing Supplement as the manner in
which the Rate of Interest is to be determined, the Rate of Interest for each Interest
Accrual Period shall (subject to Condition 5.4) be calculated (as determined by the
Calculation Agent) on the following basis:
(i) if the Reference Rate is a composite quotation or a quotation customarily
supplied by one entity, the Calculation Agent will determine the Reference
Rate which appears on the Relevant Screen Page at the then prevailing
Publication Time on the relevant Interest Determination Date; or
(ii) in any other case, the Calculation Agent will determine the arithmetic mean
of the Reference Rates which appear on the Relevant Screen Page at the
then prevailing Publication Time on the relevant Interest Determination Date;
(b) if paragraph (a)(i) above applies and no Reference Rate appears on the Relevant
Screen Page at the then prevailing Publication Time on the Interest Determination
Date or if sub-paragraph (a)(ii) applies and fewer than two Reference Rates appear
on the Relevant Screen Page at the then prevailing Publication Time on the Interest
Determination Date or if, in either case, the Relevant Screen Page is unavailable,
subject as provided below, the Rate of Interest shall be the arithmetic mean of the
Reference Rates that each of the Reference Banks is quoting (or such of them, being
at least two, as are so quoting) to leading banks in the Relevant Financial Centre at
the Publication Time on the Interest Determination Date, as determined by the
Calculation Agent; and
(c) if paragraph (b) above applies and the Calculation Agent determines that fewer than
two Reference Banks are so quoting the Reference Rate, subject as provided below,
the Rate of Interest shall be the arithmetic mean of the rates per annum (expressed
as a percentage) that the Calculation Agent determines to be the rates (being the
nearest equivalent to the Reference Rate) that at least two out of five leading banks
selected by the Calculation Agent (after consultation with the Issuer) in the Relevant
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Financial Centre, are quoting at or about the then prevailing Publication Time for a
period equivalent to the relative Interest Accrual Period to leading banks carrying on
business in the Relevant Financial Centre; except that, if fewer than two of such
banks are so quoting to such leading banks, the Rate of Interest shall be the Rate of
Interest determined on the previous Interest Determination Date (in the case of the
Medium Term Notes only, after readjustment for any difference between any Margin,
Rate Multiplier or Maximum or Minimum Rate of Interest applicable to the preceding
Interest Accrual Period and to the relevant Interest Accrual Period).
5.4 Screen Rate Benchmark Replacement
If the Calculation Agent determines that the Reference Rate has been affected by a
Reference Rate Disruption Event, then the following provisions shall apply:
(a) the Calculation Agent shall use as the “Reference Rate” such Successor Reference
Rate and such terms and other methodology described in paragraph (b) below that it
has determined;
(b) if the Calculation Agent has determined a Successor Reference Rate in accordance
with paragraph (a) above, the Calculation Agent may determine the Business Day
Convention, the definitions of Business Day, Day Count Fraction, Publication Time,
Relevant Screen Page, Relevant Time, Reference Rate and Interest Determination
Date and any other relevant methodology for calculating such Successor Reference
Rate, including any adjustment factor it determines is needed to make such
Successor Reference Rate comparable to the Reference Rate, subject to APRA’s
prior written approval in the case of Subordinated Notes; and
(c) if, in respect of an Interest Period or an Interest Accrual Period, the Calculation Agent
is unable to determine a Successor Reference Rate in accordance with paragraphs
(a) and (b) above, the Reference Rate for:
(i) that Interest Period or Interest Accrual Period shall be the Reference Rate
determined on the previous Interest Determination Date; and
(ii) any subsequent Interest Periods or Interest Accrual Periods shall be
determined in accordance with paragraphs (a) and (b) above and, if
necessary, this paragraph (c).
In the case of Subordinated Notes only, any Successor Reference Rate determined
by the Calculation Agent in accordance with paragraph (a) above, and any terms and
other relevant methodology for calculating such Successor Reference Rate (including
any adjustment factor to the Successor Reference Rate) determined by the
Calculation Agent in accordance with paragraph (b) above, will be subject to the prior
written approval of APRA having been obtained in each case.
Subordinated Noteholders should note that APRA's approval may not be given for
any Successor Reference Rate, and any terms and other relevant methodology for
calculating such Successor Reference Rate (including any adjustment factor to the
Successor Reference Rate) it considers to have the effect of increasing the Rate of
Interest contrary to applicable prudential standards.
(d) In making its determinations in accordance with Condition 5.4, the Calculation Agent:
(i) shall act in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner; and
(ii) may consult with such sources of market practice as it considers appropriate,
but otherwise may make such determination in its discretion (subject, in the case of
Subordinated Notes only, to the requirement for APRA’s prior written approval as
specified in this Condition 5.4 above).
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(e) For the purposes of this Condition 5.4:
(i) “Reference Rate Disruption Event” means that:
(A) the Reference Rate has been discontinued or otherwise ceased to
be calculated or administered; or
(B) the Reference Rate is no longer generally accepted in the Australian
market as a reference rate appropriate to floating rate debt
securities of a tenor and interest period comparable to that of the
Floating Rate Security; and
(ii) “Successor Reference Rate” means a rate that is generally accepted in the
Australian market as the successor to the Reference Rate, or if there is no
such rate, a reference rate appropriate to floating rate debt securities of a
tenor and interest period most comparable to that of the Floating Rate
Security.
5.5 BBSW Rate Determination and AONIA Rate Determination
(a) Where BBSW Rate Determination or AONIA Rate Determination is specified in the
relevant Pricing Supplement as the manner in which the Rate of Interest is to be
determined for each Interest Period, the Rate of Interest applicable to the Floating
Rate Notes for each such Interest Period is the sum of the Margin and either (x) the
BBSW Rate or (y) the AONIA Rate as specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement.
(b) Each Holder shall be deemed to acknowledge, accept and agree to be bound by, and
consents to, the determination of, substitution for and any adjustments made to the
BBSW Rate or the AONIA Rate, as applicable, in each case as described in this
Condition 5.5 and in Condition 5.6 below (in all cases without the need for any Holder
consent). Any determination, decision or election (including a decision to take or
refrain from taking any action or as to the occurrence or non-occurrence of any event
or circumstance), and any substitution for and adjustments made to, the BBSW Rate
or the AONIA Rate, as applicable, and in each case made in accordance with this
Condition 5.5 and Condition 5.6, will, in the absence of manifest or proven error, be
conclusive and binding on the Issuer, the holder of the relevant Notes and each
Calculation Agent and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in these Conditions
or other documentation relating to the Notes, shall become effective without the
consent of any person (except as expressly provided in Condition 5.6 in the case of
Subordinated Notes).
(c) If the Calculation Agent is a person other than the Issuer and that person is unwilling
or unable to determine a necessary rate, adjustment, quantum, formula, methodology
or other variable in order to calculate the applicable Rate of Interest, such rate,
adjustment, quantum, formula, methodology or other variable will be determined by
the Issuer (acting in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner) or, an
alternate financial institution (acting in good faith and in a commercially reasonable
manner) appointed by the Issuer (in its sole discretion) to so determine.
(d) All rates determined pursuant to this Condition 5.5 shall be expressed as a
percentage rate per annum and the resulting percentage will be rounded if necessary
to the fourth decimal place (i.e., to the nearest one ten-thousandth of a percentage
point) with 0.00005 being rounded upwards.
5.6 BBSW and AONIA Benchmark Rate fallback
If:
(a) a Temporary Disruption Trigger has occurred; or
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(b) a Permanent Discontinuation Trigger has occurred,
then, subject to APRA’s prior written approval in the case of Subordinated Notes, the
Benchmark Rate for an Interest Period, whilst such Temporary Disruption Trigger is
continuing or after a Permanent Discontinuation Trigger has occurred, means (in the following
order of application and precedence):
(c) where BBSW Rate is the Applicable Benchmark Rate, if a Temporary Disruption
Trigger has occurred with respect to the BBSW Rate, in the following order of
precedence:
(i) first, the Administrator Recommended Rate;
(ii) then the Supervisor Recommended Rate; and
(iii) lastly, the Final Fallback Rate;
(d) where the AONIA Rate is the Applicable Benchmark Rate or a determination of the
AONIA Rate is required for the purposes of paragraph (a) above, if a Temporary
Disruption Trigger has occurred with respect to AONIA, the rate for any day for which
AONIA is required will be the last provided or published level of AONIA;
(e) where a determination of the RBA Recommended Rate is required for the purposes
of paragraph (c) or (d) above, if a Temporary Disruption Trigger has occurred with
respect to the RBA Recommended Rate, the rate for any day for which the RBA
Recommended Rate is required will be the last rate provided or published by the
Administrator of the RBA Recommended Rate (or if no such rate has been so
provided or published, the last provided or published level of AONIA);
(f) where BBSW Rate is the Applicable Benchmark Rate, if a Permanent
Discontinuation Trigger has occurred with respect to the BBSW Rate, the rate for any
day for which the BBSW Rate is required on or after the Permanent Fallback
Effective Date will be the first rate available in the following order of precedence:
(i) first, if at the time of the BBSW Rate Permanent Fallback Effective Date, no
AONIA Permanent Fallback Effective Date has occurred, the AONIA Rate;
(ii) then, if at the time of the BBSW Rate Permanent Fallback Effective Date, an
AONIA Permanent Fallback Effective Date has occurred, an RBA
Recommended Rate has been created but no RBA Recommended Rate
Permanent Fallback Effective Date has occurred, the RBA Recommended
Fallback Rate; and
(iii) lastly, if neither paragraph (i) nor paragraph (ii) above apply, the Final
Fallback Rate;
(g) where the AONIA Rate is the Applicable Benchmark Rate or a determination of the
AONIA Rate is required for the purposes of paragraph (f)(i) above, if a Permanent
Discontinuation Trigger has occurred with respect to AONIA, the rate for any day for
which AONIA is required on or after the AONIA Permanent Fallback Effective Date
will be the first rate available in the following order of precedence:
(i) first, if at the time of the AONIA Permanent Fallback Effective Date, an RBA
Recommended Rate has been created but no RBA Recommended Rate
Permanent Fallback Effective Date has occurred, the RBA Recommended
Rate; and
(ii) lastly, if paragraph (i) above does not apply, the Final Fallback Rate; and
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(h) where a determination of the RBA Recommended Rate is required for the purposes
of paragraph (f) or (g) above, respectively, if a Permanent Discontinuation Trigger
has occurred with respect to the RBA Recommended Rate, the rate for any day for
which the RBA Recommended Rate is required on or after that Permanent Fallback
Effective Date will be the Final Fallback Rate.
When calculating an amount of interest in circumstances where a Fallback Rate other than
the Final Fallback Rate applies, that interest will be calculated as if references to the BBSW
Rate or AONIA Rate (as applicable) were references to that Fallback Rate. When calculating
interest in circumstances where the Final Fallback Rate applies, the amount of interest will be
calculated on the same basis as if the Applicable Benchmark Rate in effect immediately prior
to the application of that Final Fallback Rate remained in effect but with necessary
adjustments to substitute all references to that Applicable Benchmark Rate with
corresponding references to the Final Fallback Rate.
Subordinated Noteholders should note that APRA's approval may not be given for any
Fallback Rate, and any terms and other relevant methodology for calculating such Fallback
Rate (including any adjustment factor to the Fallback Rate) it considers to have the effect of
increasing the Rate of Interest contrary to applicable prudential standards.
5.7 Rate of Interest for Index Linked Interest Notes
The Rate of Interest in respect of Index Linked Interest Notes for each Interest Accrual Period
shall be determined in the manner specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement and interest
will accrue by reference to an Index or formula as specified in the relevant Pricing
Supplement.
5.8 Linear Interpolation
If the Pricing Supplement states that “Linear Interpolation” applies to an Interest Period, the
Calculation Agent must determine the Rate of Interest for that Interest Period using straight
line interpolation by reference to two rates determined using the Screen Rate Determination
or other floating rates, in each case, as specified in the Pricing Supplement. The first rate
must be determined as if the Interest Period were the period of time for which rates are
available next shorter than the length of the Interest Period (or any alternative Interest Period
specified in the Pricing Supplement). The second rate must be determined as if the Interest
Period were the period of time for which rates are available next longer than the length of the
Interest Period (or any alternative Interest Period specified in the Pricing Supplement).
5.9 Zero Coupon Notes
Where a Note, the Interest Basis of which is specified in the Pricing Supplement to be Zero
Coupon, is repayable prior to the Maturity Date and is not paid when due, the amount due
and payable prior to the Maturity Date shall be the Early Redemption Amount of such Note,
unless otherwise specified in the Pricing Supplement. As from the Maturity Date, the Rate of
Interest for any overdue principal of such a Note shall be a rate per annum (expressed as a
percentage) equal to the Amortisation Yield.
5.10 Accrual of Interest
Interest shall cease to accrue on each Note on the due date for redemption unless payment
is improperly withheld or refused, in which event interest shall continue to accrue (as well
after as before judgment) on the outstanding Principal Amount of the Note at the Rate of
Interest in the manner provided in this Condition 5 to the Relevant Date.
5.11 Margin, Maximum/Minimum Rates of Interest, Instalment Amounts and
Redemption Amounts, Rate Multipliers and rounding
(a) If any Margin or Rate Multiplier is specified in the Pricing Supplement (either (x)
generally, or (y) in relation to one or more Interest Accrual Periods), an adjustment
shall be made to all Rates of Interest, in the case of (x), or the Rates of Interest for
the specified Interest Accrual Periods, in the case of (y), calculated in accordance
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with 5 above by adding (if a positive number) or subtracting (if a negative number)
the absolute value of such Margin or multiplying by such Rate Multiplier, subject
always to the next paragraph.
(b) If any Maximum or Minimum Rate of Interest, Instalment Amount or Early, Final or
Optional Redemption Amount is specified in the Pricing Supplement, then any Rate
of Interest, Instalment Amount or Early, Final or Optional Redemption Amount shall
be subject to such maximum or minimum, as the case may be.
(c) Subject to the requirements of applicable law and, where the Notes are lodged in the
Austraclear System, the Austraclear Regulations, for the purposes of any
calculations required pursuant to these Conditions (unless otherwise specified), (x)
all percentages resulting from such calculations shall be rounded, if necessary, to the
nearest one hundred-thousandth of a percentage point (with halves being rounded
up), (y) all figures shall be rounded to seven decimal places (with halves being
rounded up) and (z) all currency amounts that fall due and payable shall be rounded
to the nearest cent (with one half cent being rounded up).
(d) The Pricing Supplement in respect of any Subordinated Notes must not specify a
Rate Multiplier, Maximum Rate of Interest, Minimum Rate of Interest or Instalment
Amount.
5.12 Calculations
The amount of interest payable in respect of any Note for any Interest Accrual Period shall,
subject where that Note is lodged in the Austraclear System, to the Austraclear Regulations,
be calculated by multiplying the product of the Rate of Interest and the outstanding Principal
Amount of such Note by the Day Count Fraction, unless an Interest Amount (or a formula for
its calculation) is specified in the Pricing Supplement in respect of such period, in which case
the amount of interest payable in respect of such Note for such period shall equal such
Interest Amount (or be calculated in accordance with such formula). Where any Interest
Period comprises two or more Interest Accrual Periods, the amount of interest payable in
respect of such Interest Period shall be the sum of the amounts of interest payable in respect
of each of those Interest Accrual Periods.
5.13 Determination and Publication of Rate of Interest, Interest Amounts, Early,
Final or Optional Redemption Amounts and Instalment Amounts
As soon as practicable after the Relevant Time on each Interest Determination Date or such
other time on such date as the Calculation Agent may be required to calculate any rate or
amount, obtain any quotation or make any determination or calculation, the Calculation Agent
shall:
(a) determine such rate and calculate the Interest Amounts in respect of each Specified
Denomination of the Notes for the relevant Interest Accrual Period;
(b) calculate the Final Redemption Amount, Early Redemption Amount, Instalment
Amount or Optional Redemption Amount;
(c) obtain such quotation or make such determination or calculation, as the case may
be; and
(d) cause:
(i) the Rate of Interest and the Interest Amounts for each Interest Accrual
Period and the relevant Interest Payment Date; and
(ii) if required to be calculated, the Final Redemption Amount, Early Redemption
Amount, Instalment Amount or Optional Redemption Amount,
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to be notified to:
(A) the Issuer;
(B) the Registrar (which will then notify the Holders of the calculation as
required by the Issuer to the address of the Holders recorded in the
Register);
(C) any other Calculation Agent appointed in respect of the Notes that is
to make a further calculation upon receipt of such information; and
(D) if the Notes are listed on a stock exchange and the rules of such
exchange so require, such exchange,
as soon as possible after their determination but in no event later than:
(iii) the commencement of the relevant Interest Accrual Period, if determined
prior to such time in the case of notification to such exchange of a Rate of
Interest and Interest Amount; or
(iv) in all other cases, the fourth Business Day after such determination.
Where any Interest Payment Date or Interest Accrual Period is subject to adjustment
pursuant to the application of a Business Day Convention, the Interest Amounts and
the Interest Payment Date so published may subsequently be amended (or
appropriate alternative arrangements made by way of adjustment) without notice in
the event of an extension or shortening of the Interest Accrual Period.
If the Notes become due and payable under Condition 15, the accrued interest and
the Rate of Interest payable in respect of the Notes shall nevertheless continue to be
calculated as previously in accordance with this Condition but no publication of the
Rate of Interest or the Interest Amount so calculated need be made.
The determination of any rate or amount, the obtaining of each quotation and the
making of each determination or calculation by the Calculation Agent(s) shall (in the
absence of manifest error) be final and binding upon all parties.
5.14 Calculation Agent
If the Conditions applicable to a Note contemplate the appointment of a Calculation Agent in
respect of that Note:
(a) the Issuer shall procure that, at all times, and for so long as any such Note is
outstanding, one or more persons is appointed as Calculation Agent;
(b) the Issuer may appoint itself as Calculation Agent;
(c) the Issuer may appoint more than one Calculation Agent in respect of the Notes, and
if it does so, references in these Conditions to the Calculation Agent shall be
construed as each Calculation Agent performing its respective duties under the
Conditions; and
(d) if the Calculation Agent is a person other than the Issuer and is unable or unwilling to
act as such or if the Calculation Agent fails duly to establish the Rate of Interest for
an Interest Accrual Period or to calculate any Interest Amount, Instalment Amount,
Final Redemption Amount, Early Redemption Amount or Optional Redemption
Amount or to comply with any other requirement in respect of a Note, except where
the Conditions or Pricing Supplement applicable to the Note otherwise provide, the
Issuer shall appoint a leading bank or investment banking firm engaged in the
interbank market (or, if appropriate, money, swap or over-the-counter index options
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market) that is most closely connected with the calculation or determination to be
made by the Calculation Agent to act as such in its place. The Calculation Agent
may not resign its duties without a successor having been appointed as aforesaid.
5.15 Certificates to be final
All certificates, communications, opinions, determinations, calculations, quotations and
decisions given, expressed, made or obtained for the purposes of the provisions of this
Condition 5 shall (in the absence of wilful default, bad faith or manifest error) be binding on
the Issuer, the Calculation Agent, the Registrar and all Holders, and (in the absence of wilful
default, bad faith or manifest error) no liability to the Issuer or the Holders, shall attach to the
Calculation Agent in connection with the exercise or non-exercise by it of its powers, duties
and discretions pursuant to such provisions.
5.16 Conditions of Payment – Subordinated Notes
Prior to the commencement of the winding-up of the Issuer (other than under or in connection
with a scheme of amalgamation or reconstruction not involving bankruptcy or insolvency):
(a) the obligations of the Issuer to make payments of principal of, any interest on, and
any other payments, including additional amounts, in respect of the Subordinated
Notes will be conditional on the Issuer being Solvent at the time of payment by the
Issuer; and
(b) no payment of principal of, any interest on, and any other payments, including
additional amounts, in respect of the Subordinated Notes shall be made unless the
Issuer is Solvent immediately after making the payment,
and if, pursuant to this Condition, the Issuer fails to make any payment of principal of, or
interest on, or any other payment, including additional amounts, in respect of any
Subordinated Note when due, such failure will not constitute an Event of Default for the
purposes of Condition 15.2(b).
A certificate signed by two authorised signatories, or an auditor, of the Issuer or, if the Issuer
is being wound up, its liquidator as to whether the Issuer is Solvent at any time is (in the
absence of wilful default, bad faith or manifest error) conclusive evidence of the information
contained in the certificate and will be binding on the Subordinated Noteholders. In the
absence of any such certificate, the Subordinated Noteholders are entitled to assume (unless
the contrary is proved) that the Issuer is Solvent at the time of, and will be Solvent
immediately after, any payment on or in respect of the Subordinated Notes.
6 Redemption, Purchase and Options
6.1 Redemption by Instalments and Final Redemption
(a) Unless previously redeemed, purchased and cancelled as provided in this Condition
6 or unless the relevant Instalment Date (being one of the dates so specified in the
Pricing Supplement) is extended pursuant to the Conditions or any provision of the
relevant Pricing Supplement, each Note that provides for Instalment Dates and
Instalment Amounts shall be partially redeemed on each Instalment Date at the
related Instalment Amount specified in the Pricing Supplement. The outstanding
Principal Amount of each such Note shall be reduced by the Instalment Amount (or, if
such Instalment Amount is calculated by reference to a proportion of the Principal
Amount of such Note, such proportion) for all purposes with effect from the related
Instalment Date, unless payment of the Instalment Amount is improperly withheld or
refused, in which case, such amount shall remain outstanding until the Relevant Date
relating to such Instalment Amount. A Subordinated Note will not provide for
redemption by instalments.
(b) Unless previously redeemed, purchased and cancelled as provided below or Written-
Off or Converted or its maturity is extended pursuant to the Conditions or any
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provision of the relevant Pricing Supplement, each Note shall be finally redeemed on
the Maturity Date specified in the Pricing Supplement at its Final Redemption Amount
or, in the case of a Note falling within paragraph (a) above, its final Instalment
Amount.
6.2 Redemption for taxation reasons
If, as a result of any change in or amendment to the laws or regulations of Australia or any
political subdivision or any authority thereof or therein having power to tax, or any change in
the application or official interpretation of such laws or regulations, which change or
amendment becomes effective after the Issue Date (and in respect of any Subordinated Note,
which the Issuer did not expect as at the Issue Date of that Subordinated Note) of any Note
(as specified in the Pricing Supplement):
(a) in the case of any Note, the Issuer has or will become obliged to pay any additional
amounts as provided in Condition 13;
(b) in the case of any Subordinated Note only and if specified in the Pricing Supplement,
the Issuer or the consolidated tax group of which it is a member would be exposed to
more than a de minimis amount of other taxes, levies, imposts, charges and duties
(including stamp and transaction duties) imposed by any authority together with any
related interest, penalties and expenses in connection with them, assessments or
other governmental charges in connection with any Note; or
(c) in the case of any Subordinated Note only and if specified in the Pricing Supplement,
the Issuer determines that any interest payable on any Note is not, or may not be,
allowed as a deduction for the purposes of Australian income tax,
the Issuer may at its option, at any time (if the Note is neither a Floating Rate Note nor an
Index Linked Interest Note) or on any Interest Payment Date (in the case of Floating Rate
Notes or Index Linked Interest Notes) and subject to Condition 6.10 in the case of any
Subordinated Note, on giving not more than 60 nor less than 30 days’ notice to the Holders of
the relevant Series (which notice shall be irrevocable) redeem all, but not some only, of the
Notes of the relevant Series at their Early Redemption Amount together with interest accrued
to the date fixed for redemption, provided where Condition 6.2(a) applies that no such notice
of redemption shall be given earlier than 90 days prior to the earliest date on which the Issuer
would be obliged to pay additional amounts were a payment in respect of the Notes then due.
Prior to the publication of any notice of redemption pursuant to this Condition 6.2, the Issuer
shall deliver to the Registrar a certificate signed by two persons each of whom is either a
Director, a senior executive or an authorised representative (or equivalent status) of the
Issuer stating that the Issuer is entitled to effect such redemption and setting forth a
statement of the facts showing that the conditions precedent to the right of the Issuer so to
redeem have occurred.
6.3 Redemption of Subordinated Notes for regulatory reasons
If specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement, if a Regulatory Event occurs, the Issuer may
at its option, at any time (if the Subordinated Note is not a Floating Rate Note) or on any
Interest Payment Date (in the case of a Subordinated Note that is a Floating Rate Note) and
subject to Condition 6.10 on giving not more than 60 nor less than 30 days’ notice to the
Subordinated Noteholders of the relevant Series (which notice shall be irrevocable) redeem
all, but not some only, of the Subordinated Notes of the relevant Series at their Early
Redemption Amount together with interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption. Prior to
the publication of any notice of redemption pursuant to this Condition 6.3, the Issuer shall
deliver to the Registrar a certificate signed by two persons each of whom is either a Director,
a senior executive or an authorised representative (or equivalent status) of the Issuer stating
that the Issuer is entitled to effect such redemption and setting forth a statement of the facts
showing that the conditions precedent to the right of the Issuer so to redeem have occurred.
For the purposes of this Condition, “Regulatory Event” means the receipt by the directors of
the Issuer of:
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(a) an opinion from a reputable legal counsel that as a result of any amendment to,
clarification of or change (including any announcement of a change that has been or
will be introduced) in, any law or regulation of Australia, or any official administrative
pronouncement or action or judicial decision interpreting or applying such laws or
regulations, which amendment, clarification or change is effective, or
pronouncement, action or decision is announced, after the Issue Date; or
(b) an official written statement from APRA,
that, in each case, the Issuer is not or will not be entitled to treat all Subordinated Notes of a
Series as Tier 2 Capital, provided that, in each case, on the Issue Date of the Subordinated
Notes, the Issuer did not expect that matters giving rise to the Regulatory Event would occur.
6.4 Early Redemption of Zero Coupon Notes
(a) The Early Redemption Amount payable in respect of any Zero Coupon Note that
does not bear interest prior to the Maturity Date, the Early Redemption Amount of
which is not linked to an index and/or a formula, upon redemption of such Note
pursuant to Condition 6.2, 6.5 or 6.6 or upon it becoming due and payable as
provided in Condition 15, shall be the Amortised Face Amount (calculated as
provided below) of such Note unless otherwise specified in the Pricing Supplement.
(b) Subject to the provisions of sub-paragraph (c) below, the “Amortised Face
Amount” of any such Note shall be the scheduled Final Redemption Amount of such
Note on the Maturity Date discounted to the date of its early redemption at a rate per
annum (expressed as a percentage) equal to the “Amortisation Yield” (which, if
none is set out in the Pricing Supplement, shall be such rate as would produce an
Amortised Face Amount equal to the Issue Price of the Notes if such Notes were
discounted back from the Maturity Date to the relevant Issue Date) compounded
annually. Where such calculation is to be made for a period of less than one year, it
shall be made on the basis of the Day Count Fraction set out in the Pricing
Supplement.
(c) If the Early Redemption Amount payable in respect of any such Note upon its
redemption pursuant to Condition 6.2, 6.5 or 6.6 or upon it becoming due and
payable as provided in Condition 15, is not paid when due, the Early Redemption
Amount due and payable in respect of such Note shall be the Amortised Face
Amount of such Note as defined in sub-paragraph (b) above, except that such sub-
paragraph shall have effect as though the reference therein to the date on which the
Note becomes due and payable were replaced by a reference to the Relevant Date.
The calculation of the Amortised Face Amount in accordance with this sub-paragraph
shall continue to be made (after, as well as before, judgment) until the Relevant Date,
unless the Relevant Date falls on or after the Maturity Date, in which case the
amount due and payable shall be the scheduled Final Redemption Amount of such
Note on the Maturity Date together with any interest that may accrue in accordance
with Condition 5.10.
Where such calculation is to be made for a period of less than one year, it shall be made on
the basis of the Day Count Fraction.
6.5 Redemption at the option of the Issuer and exercise of the Issuer's options
If a Call Option is included in the Pricing Supplement and subject to Condition 6.10 in the
case of any Subordinated Note, the Issuer may, on giving not less than five or more than 30
days’ irrevocable notice (subject to such other notice period as may be specified in the
Pricing Supplement under “Option Exercise Date”) to the Holders redeem or exercise any
Issuer’s option (as may be described in the Pricing Supplement) in relation to all or, if so
provided, some of the Notes on any Optional Redemption Date (which, in the case of a
Subordinated Note, may not be before the fifth anniversary of the Issue Date of that
Subordinated Note). Any such redemption of Notes shall be at their Optional Redemption
Amount together with interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption. Any such redemption
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or exercise of the Issuer's option shall just relate to Notes of a Principal Amount at least equal
to the Minimum Redemption Amount to be redeemed specified in the Pricing Supplement and
no greater than the Maximum Redemption Amount to be redeemed specified in the Pricing
Supplement.
All Notes in respect of which any such notice is given shall be redeemed, or the Issuer’s
option shall be exercised, on the date specified in such notice in accordance with this
Condition.
In the case of a partial redemption or a partial exercise of an Issuer’s option, the notice to
Holders shall also contain details of the Principal Amount of Notes to be redeemed or in
respect of which such option has been exercised, which shall have been drawn in such place
as may be fair and reasonable in the circumstances, having regard to prevailing market
practices and in such manner as it deems appropriate, subject to compliance with any
applicable laws and stock exchange requirements.
6.6 Clean-Up Redemption at the option of the Issuer (Clean-Up Call)
If a Clean-Up Call is specified as being applicable in the relevant Pricing Supplement and 75
per cent or more in aggregate Principal Amount of the relevant Series of Notes issued has
been redeemed or purchased and cancelled, the Issuer may, at its option, on giving not less
than five or more than 30 days’ irrevocable notice to the Holders of the relevant Series,
redeem all, but not some only, of those Notes outstanding on the Residual Redemption Date,
at their Residual Redemption Amount together with any accrued but unpaid interest to, but
excluding, the Residual Redemption Date.
A Clean-up Call may not be specified in the Pricing Supplement in respect of Subordinated
Notes.
6.7 Redemption at the Option of Holders and Exercise of Holders' Options
If a Put Option is specified in the Pricing Supplement, the Issuer shall, at the option of the
Holder of such Note, upon the Holder of such Note giving not less than 15 nor more than 30
days’ notice to the Issuer (subject to such other notice period as may be specified in the
Pricing Supplement under “Option Exercise Date”), redeem such Note on the Optional
Redemption Date(s) so provided at its Optional Redemption Amount together with interest
accrued to the date fixed for redemption. No such notice may be withdrawn without the prior
consent of the Issuer or if, prior to the due date for its redemption or the exercise of the
option, the relevant Note becomes immediately due and payable.
To exercise such option or any other Holder’s option that may be set out in the Pricing
Supplement, the Holder must complete, sign and deliver to the Registrar within the notice
period, a redemption notice (in the form obtainable from the Registrar) together with any
Certificate held by the Holder relating to the Notes to be transferred and such evidence as the
Registrar may require to establish the rights of that Holder to the relevant Notes.
A Put Option may not be specified in the Pricing Supplement in respect of Subordinated
Notes.
6.8 Purchases
The Issuer is taken to represent as at the date of issue of each Note, that it does not know or
have any reasonable grounds to suspect that that Note or any interest in or right in respect of
that Note is being or will later be, acquired either directly or indirectly by an Offshore
Associate of the Issuer acting other than in the capacity of a dealer, manager or underwriter
in relation to the placement of the Notes or a clearing house, custodian, funds manager or
responsible entity of a registered scheme within the meaning of the Corporations Act.
The Issuer and:
(a) in the case of the Subordinated Notes, any of its Related Entities; and
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(b) in any other case, any of its subsidiaries,
may, to the extent permitted by applicable laws and regulations and subject to Condition 6.10
in the case of any Subordinated Note, at any time purchase Notes in the open market or
otherwise. Notes purchased by the Issuer, any of its Related Entities or any of its subsidiaries
may be surrendered by the purchaser through the Issuer to the Registrar for cancellation or,
may be held or resold, in each case at the option of the Issuer, the relevant Related Entity or
the relevant subsidiary. In the event that Notes are purchased by the Issuer, any of its
Related Entities or any of its subsidiaries but not cancelled the Issuer, the relevant Related
Entity or the relevant subsidiary will relinquish any voting rights in respect of those purchased
Notes.
6.9 Cancellation
All Notes redeemed by the Issuer or surrendered by the purchaser through the Issuer for
cancellation shall be surrendered for cancellation by the Issuer or purchaser notifying the
Registrar and surrendering to the Registrar any Certificates held by the Holder relating to the
Notes to be cancelled by the Registrar and if so surrendered, the Notes will be cancelled
forthwith. Any Notes so surrendered for cancellation may not be reissued or resold and the
obligations of the Issuer in respect of any such Notes shall be discharged.
6.10 Consent of APRA
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Condition 6, the Issuer may not:
(a) redeem any Subordinated Notes under Conditions 6.2, 6.3 or 6.5 above; or
(b) prior to the Maturity Date purchase, or procure that any of its Related Entities
purchase, any Subordinated Notes under Condition 6.8 above,
without the prior written approval of APRA. In addition, the prior written approval of APRA is
required to modify, abrogate, amend, waive, vary or compromise the terms of any Series of
Subordinated Notes where such action may affect the eligibility of such Subordinated Notes
as Tier 2 Capital.
Subordinated Noteholders should not expect that APRA’s approval will be given for any
redemption or purchase of Subordinated Notes.
6.11 Conditions to redemption for Subordinated Notes
Without limiting Condition 6.10, the Issuer will not be permitted to redeem any Subordinated
Note unless the Subordinated Note is replaced concurrently or beforehand with Regulatory
Capital of the same or better quality and the replacement of the Subordinated Note is done
under conditions that are sustainable for the Issuer’s income capacity or APRA is satisfied
that the Issuer’s capital position at Level 1, Level 2 and, if applicable, Level 3 is well above its
minimum capital requirements after the Issuer elects to redeem the Subordinated Note.
7 Conversion or Write-Off of Subordinated Notes on Non-
Viability Trigger Event
7.1 Application to Subordinated Notes only
Conditions 7, 8 and 9 apply only to Subordinated Notes.
7.2 Non-Viability Trigger Event
A “Non-Viability Trigger Event” means the earlier of:
(a) the issuance to the Issuer of a written determination from APRA that conversion or
write-off of Relevant Securities is necessary because, without it, APRA considers that
the Issuer would become non-viable; or
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(b) a determination by APRA, notified to the Issuer in writing, that without a public sector
injection of capital, or equivalent support, the Issuer would become non-viable,
each such determination being a “Non-Viability Determination”.
7.3 Conversion or Write-Off of Subordinated Notes on Trigger Event Date
If a Non-Viability Trigger Event occurs:
(a) on the Trigger Event Date, subject only to Condition 8.5, such Principal Amount of
the Subordinated Notes will immediately Convert or be Written-Off (whichever is
applicable as specified in the Pricing Supplement) as is required by the Non-Viability
Determination provided that:
(i) where the Non-Viability Trigger Event occurs under Condition 7.2(a) and
such Non-Viability Determination does not require all Relevant Securities to
be converted into ANZGHL Ordinary Shares or written-off, such Principal
Amount of the Subordinated Notes shall Convert or be Written-Off
(whichever is applicable as specified in the Pricing Supplement) as is
sufficient (determined by the Issuer in accordance with Condition 7.3(b)) to
satisfy APRA that the Issuer is viable without further conversion or write-off;
and
(ii) where the Non-Viability Trigger Event occurs under Condition 7.2(b), all the
Principal Amount of the Subordinated Notes will immediately Convert or be
Written-Off (whichever is applicable as specified in the Pricing Supplement).
(b) the Issuer will determine the Principal Amount of Subordinated Notes which must be
Converted or Written-Off (as applicable) in accordance with Condition 7.3(a)(i), on
the following basis:
(i) first, convert into ANZGHL Ordinary Shares or write-off all Relevant Tier 1
Securities; and
(ii) secondly, if conversion into ANZGHL Ordinary Shares or write-off of all
Relevant Tier 1 Securities is not sufficient to satisfy the requirements of
Condition 7.3(a)(i) (and provided that as a result of the conversion or write-
off of Relevant Tier 1 Securities APRA has not withdrawn the Non-Viability
Determination), Convert or Write-Off (as applicable) a Principal Amount of
Subordinated Notes and convert into ANZGHL Ordinary Shares or write-off a
number or principal amount of other Relevant Tier 2 Securities on an
approximately pro-rata basis or in a manner that is otherwise, in the opinion
of the Issuer, fair and reasonable (subject to such adjustment as the Issuer
may determine to take into account the effect on marketable parcels and the
need to round to whole numbers the number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares
and the authorised denominations of the Principal Amount of any
Subordinated Note or the number or principal amount of other Relevant Tier
2 Securities remaining on issue, and the need to effect the conversion
immediately) and, for the purposes of this Condition 7.3(b)(ii), where the
specified currency of the principal amount of Relevant Tier 2 Securities is not
the same for all Relevant Tier 2 Securities, the Issuer may treat them as if
converted into a single currency of the Issuer’s choice at such rate of
exchange as the Issuer in good faith considers reasonable,
provided that such determination does not impede or delay the immediate
Conversion or Write-Off (as applicable) of the relevant Principal Amount of
Subordinated Notes;
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(c) on the Trigger Event Date, the Issuer shall determine the Subordinated Notes or
portions thereof as to which the Conversion or Write-Off (as applicable) is to take
effect and in making that determination may make any decisions with respect to the
identity of the Subordinated Noteholders at that time as may be necessary or
desirable to ensure Conversion or Write-Off (as applicable) occurs in an orderly
manner, including disregarding any transfers of Subordinated Notes that have not
been settled or registered at that time provided that such determination does not
impede or delay the immediate Conversion or Write-Off (as applicable) of the
relevant Principal Amount of Subordinated Notes;
(d) the Issuer must give notice of its determination pursuant to Condition 7.3(c) (a
“Trigger Event Notice”) as soon as practicable to the Subordinated Noteholders,
which must specify:
(i) the Trigger Event Date;
(ii) the Principal Amount of the Subordinated Notes Converted or Written-Off (as
applicable); and
(iii) the relevant number or principal amount of other Relevant Securities
converted or written-off;
(e) none of the following events shall prevent, impede or delay the Conversion or Write-
Off (as applicable) of Subordinated Notes as required by Condition 7.3(a):
(i) any failure or delay in the conversion or write-off of other Relevant
Securities;
(ii) any failure or delay in giving a Trigger Event Notice;
(iii) any failure or delay by a Subordinated Noteholder or any other party in
complying with the provisions of Condition 7.4;
(iv) any requirement to select or adjust the number or Principal Amount of
Subordinated Notes to be Converted or Written-Off (as applicable) in
accordance with Condition 7.3(b)(ii) or 7.3(c); and
(v) in the case of Conversion only, any failure or delay in quotation of ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares to be issued on Conversion.
If a Non-Viability Determination takes effect, the Issuer must perform the obligations in
respect of the determination immediately on the day it is received by the Issuer, whether or
not such day is a Business Day.
7.4 Conversion or Write-Off of a whole or of a portion of a Subordinated Note
If a Principal Amount of a Subordinated Note is required to be Converted or Written-Off, the
following provisions apply:
(a) The Issuer shall notify the Registrar of the Principal Amount of such Subordinated
Note that has been Converted or Written-Off (whether in whole or in part) and instruct
the Registrar to reflect this Conversion or Write-Off (as applicable) in the Register so
that the Principal Amount of such Subordinated Note is reduced, in the case of a
Subordinated Note Converted or Written-Off in whole, to zero, or, in the case of a
Subordinated Note which is Converted or Written-Off in part, to an amount equal to
the non-Converted or non-Written-Off (as applicable) portion of the Principal Amount
of such Subordinated Note;
(b) in the case of a Subordinated Note which is Converted or Written-Off only in part:
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(i) the Principal Amount of the Subordinated Note will be reduced to an amount
equal to the non-Converted or non-Written-Off portion (as applicable) of the
Principal Amount of such Subordinated Note;
(ii) ANZGHL will be taken to hold (as a result of the transfer in accordance with
the Schedule to these Conditions) a new Subordinated Note with a principal
amount equal to the Converted or Written-Off portion (as applicable) of the
Principal Amount of the original Subordinated Note, and on terms otherwise
identical to the terms of such Subordinated Note (the "Affected
Subordinated Note");
(iii) where the date of the Conversion or Write-Off is not an Interest Payment
Date, the amount of interest payable in respect of that Subordinated Note on
each Interest Payment Date falling after that date will be reduced and
calculated on the Principal Amount of that Subordinated Note as reduced on
that date;
(iv) for the purposes of any interest calculation, the Interest Amount, the Fixed
Coupon Amount, Broken Amount, the Calculation Amount and any related
amount in respect of that Subordinated Note shall be reduced in the same
proportion as the Principal Amount Converted or Written-Off in respect of
that Subordinated Note bears to the Principal Amount of that Subordinated
Note before such Conversion or Write-Off; and
(v) the Early Redemption Amount, the Final Redemption Amount, the Optional
Redemption Amount, the Specified Denomination and Principal Amount or
any related amount shall be reduced in the same proportion as the Principal
Amount Converted or Written-Off in respect of that Subordinated Note bears
to the Principal Amount of that Subordinated Note before such Conversion or
Write-Off;
(c) if a Certificate has been issued to the relevant Subordinated Noteholder in respect of
such Subordinated Note, then, if the Issuer so requires, such Subordinated
Noteholder shall surrender such Certificate to the Issuer (or, if the Issuer so directs,
to the Registrar) and, in the case of a Subordinated Note which is Converted or
Written-Off only in part, the Issuer shall deliver to the Subordinated Noteholder, a
Certificate for a Subordinated Note with a Principal Amount equal to the non-
Converted or non-Written-Off (as applicable) portion of the Principal Amount of such
Subordinated Note; and
(d) each Subordinated Noteholder irrevocably authorises the Issuer to sign any
document or transfer or do any other thing as may in the Issuer’s opinion be
necessary or desirable to effect any transfer of the Subordinated Notes the subject of
the Conversion.
8 Conversion of Subordinated Notes
8.1 Conversion of Subordinated Notes on Trigger Event Date
Unless "Write-Off – Applicable" is specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement, Condition 8
shall apply to the Subordinated Notes and, notwithstanding any other provision in these
Conditions, on the Trigger Event Date the relevant Principal Amount (as determined under
Condition 7.3) of the Subordinated Notes will Convert immediately and irrevocably.
On and from the Trigger Event Date, subject to Conditions 8.5 and 8.6(c)(iii), the Issuer and
ANZGHL shall treat any Subordinated Noteholder of any Subordinated Note or portion
thereof which is required to be Converted as the holder of the relevant number of ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares and will take all such steps, including updating any register, required to
record the Conversion and the issuance of such ANZGHL Ordinary Shares.
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8.2 Provision of information
Where a Principal Amount of Subordinated Notes is required to be Converted under
Condition 8, a Subordinated Noteholder of Subordinated Notes or portion thereof that are
subject to Conversion wishing to receive ANZGHL Ordinary Shares must, no later than the
Trigger Event Date (or, in the case where Condition 8.4(f) applies, within 30 days of the date
on which ANZGHL Ordinary Shares are issued upon such Conversion), have provided to the
Issuer:
(a) its name and address (or the name and address of any person in whose name it
directs the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to be issued) for entry into any register of title
and receipt of any certificate or holding statement in respect of any ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares;
(b) the security account details of such Subordinated Noteholder in CHESS or such
other account to which the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares may be credited; and
(c) such other information as is reasonably requested by the Issuer for the purposes of
enabling ANZGHL to issue the Conversion Number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to
such Subordinated Noteholder,
and the Issuer has no duty to seek or obtain such information.
8.3 Failure to Convert
Subject to Condition 8.4 and Condition 8.5, if, in respect of a Conversion of Subordinated
Notes, ANZGHL fails to issue, on the Trigger Event Date, the Conversion Number of
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares in respect of the relevant Principal Amount of such Subordinated
Notes to, or in accordance with the instructions of, the relevant Subordinated Noteholder on
the Trigger Event Date or any other nominee where Condition 8.4 applies, the Principal
Amount of such Subordinated Notes which would otherwise be subject to Conversion shall
remain on issue and outstanding until:
(a) the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares are issued to, or in accordance with the instructions of,
the Subordinated Noteholder of such Subordinated Notes; or
(b) such Subordinated Notes are Written-Off in accordance with these Conditions,
provided that the sole right of the Subordinated Noteholder in respect of Subordinated Notes
or portion thereof that are subject to Conversion is its right to be issued ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares upon Conversion (subject to its compliance with Condition 8.2 or to receive the
proceeds from their sale pursuant to Condition 8.4, as applicable) and the remedy of such
Subordinated Noteholder in respect of ANZGHL's failure to issue the ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares is limited (subject always to Condition 8.5) to seeking an order for specific
performance of ANZGHL's obligation to issue the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to the
Subordinated Noteholder or where Condition 8.4 applies to the nominee and to receive such
proceeds of sale, in each case, in accordance with the terms of the Subordinated Notes. This
Condition 8.3 does not affect the obligation of ANZGHL to issue the ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares when required in accordance with these Conditions.
8.4 Issue to nominee
If, in respect of a Subordinated Note and a Subordinated Noteholder of that Subordinated
Note, the Subordinated Note or portion thereof is required to be Converted and:
(a) the Subordinated Noteholder has notified the Issuer that it does not wish to receive
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares as a result of the Conversion (whether entirely or to the
extent specified in the notice), which notice may be given at any time prior to the
Trigger Event Date;
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(b) the Subordinated Notes are held by a Subordinated Noteholder whose address in the
register is a place outside Australia or who the Issuer otherwise believes may not be
a resident of Australia (a “Foreign Holder”);
(c) for any reason (whether or not due to the fault of the Subordinated Noteholder) the
Issuer has not received the information required by Condition 8.2 prior to the Trigger
Event Date and the lack of such information would prevent ANZGHL from issuing the
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to the Subordinated Noteholder on the Trigger Event
Date; or
(d) a FATCA Withholding is required to be made in respect of the ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares issued on Conversion,
then, on the Trigger Event Date:
(e) where Condition 8.4(a), 8.4(b) or 8.4(d) applies, ANZGHL shall issue the ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares to the Subordinated Noteholder only to the extent (if at all) that:
(i) where Condition 8.4(a) applies, the Subordinated Noteholder has notified the
Issuer that it wishes to receive them;
(ii) where Condition 8.4(b) applies, the Issuer is satisfied that the laws of both
Australia and the Foreign Holder’s country of residence permit the issue of
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to the Foreign Holder (but as to which the Issuer
is not bound to enquire), either unconditionally or after compliance with
conditions which the Issuer in its absolute discretion regards as acceptable
and not unduly onerous; and
(iii) where Condition 8.4(d) applies, the issue is net of the FATCA Withholding;
and, to the extent ANZGHL is not obliged to issue ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to the
Subordinated Noteholder, ANZGHL will issue the balance of the ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares to the nominee in accordance with Condition 8.4(f); and
(f) otherwise, subject to applicable law, ANZGHL will issue the balance of ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares in respect of the Subordinated Noteholder to a competent nominee
(which may not be the Issuer or any of its Related Entities) and will promptly notify
such Subordinated Noteholder of the name of and contact information for the
nominee and the number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares issued to the nominee on its
behalf and, subject to applicable law and:
(i) subject to Condition 8.4(f)(ii), the nominee will as soon as reasonably
possible and no later than 35 days after issue of the ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares sell those ANZGHL Ordinary Shares and pay a cash amount equal to
the net proceeds received, after deducting any applicable brokerage, stamp
duty and other taxes and charges, to the Subordinated Noteholder;
(ii) where Condition 8.4(c) applies, the nominee will hold such ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares and will transfer ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to such
Subordinated Noteholder promptly after such Subordinated Noteholder
provides the nominee with the information required to be provided by such
Subordinated Noteholder under Condition 8.2 (as if a reference in Condition
8.2 to the Issuer is a reference to the nominee and a reference to the issue
of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares is a reference to the transfer of ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares) but only where such information is provided to the nominee
within 30 days of the date on which ANZGHL Ordinary Shares are issued to
the nominee upon Conversion of such Subordinated Note and failing which
the nominee will sell the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares and pay the proceeds to
such Subordinated Noteholder in accordance with Condition 8.4(f)(i); and
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(iii) where Condition 8.4(d) applies, the nominee shall deal with ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares the subject of a FATCA Withholding and any proceeds of
their disposal in accordance with FATCA;
(g) nothing in this Condition 8.4 shall affect the Conversion of the Subordinated Notes of
a Subordinated Noteholder who is not a person to which any of Condition 8.4(a) to
8.4(d) (inclusive) applies; and
(h) for the purposes of this Condition 8.4, none of the Issuer, ANZGHL or the nominee
owes any obligations or duties to the Subordinated Noteholders in relation to the
price at which ANZGHL Ordinary Shares are sold or has any liability for any loss
suffered by a Subordinated Noteholder as a result of the sale of ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares.
8.5 Write-Off of Subordinated Notes if Conversion is not effected within 5
Business Days after a Trigger Event Date
Notwithstanding any other provision of Condition 8 and provided that "Write-Off – Applicable"
is not specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement, where Subordinated Notes are required to
be Converted on the Trigger Event Date and Conversion of the relevant Principal Amount of
the Subordinated Notes that are subject to Conversion has not been effected within five
Business Days after the relevant Trigger Event Date for any reason (including an Inability
Event):
(a) the relevant Principal Amount of each Subordinated Note which, but for this
Condition 8.5, would be Converted, will not be Converted and instead will be Written-
Off with effect on and from the Trigger Event Date; and
(b) the Issuer shall notify the Subordinated Noteholders as promptly as practically
possible that Conversion of the relevant Principal Amount of the Subordinated Notes
has not occurred and that such Principal Amount of the Subordinated Notes has
been Written-Off.
8.6 Subordinated Noteholder acknowledgements
Each Subordinated Noteholder irrevocably:
(a) consents to becoming a member of ANZGHL upon the Conversion of the relevant
Principal Amount of Subordinated Notes as required by this Condition 8 and agrees
to be bound by the constitution of ANZGHL, in each case in respect of the ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares issued to such Subordinated Noteholder on Conversion;
(b) acknowledges and agrees that it is obliged to accept ANZGHL Ordinary Shares upon
a Conversion of the Principal Amount of Subordinated Notes it holds notwithstanding
anything that might otherwise affect a Conversion of such Principal Amount of
Subordinated Notes including:
(i) any change in the financial position of the Issuer or ANZGHL, since the issue
of such Subordinated Notes;
(ii) any disruption to the market or potential market for the ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares or to capital markets generally; or
(iii) any breach by the Issuer or ANZGHL of any obligation in connection with
such Subordinated Notes;
(c) acknowledges and agrees that where Condition 7.3 applies:
(i) there are no other conditions to a Non-Viability Trigger Event occurring as
and when provided in Condition 7.2;
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(ii) Conversion must occur immediately on the occurrence of a Non-Viability
Trigger Event and that may result in disruption or failures in trading or
dealings in the Subordinated Notes;
(iii) it will not have any rights to vote in respect of any Conversion and that the
Subordinated Note does not confer a right to vote at any meeting of
members of the Issuer or ANZGHL; and
(iv) the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares issued on Conversion may not be quoted at
the time of issue, or at all;
(d) acknowledges and agrees that where Condition 8.5 applies, no conditions or events
will affect the operation of that Condition and such Subordinated Noteholder will not
have any rights to vote in respect of any Write-Off under that Condition and has no
claim against the Issuer or ANZGHL, arising in connection with the application of that
Condition;
(e) acknowledges and agrees that such Subordinated Noteholder has no right to request
a Conversion of any Principal Amount of any Subordinated Notes or to determine
whether (or in what circumstances) the Principal Amount of Subordinated Notes it
holds is Converted;
(f) acknowledges and agrees that none of the following shall prevent, impede or delay
the Conversion or (where relevant) Write-Off of the Principal Amount of Subordinated
Notes:
(i) any failure to or delay in the conversion or write-off of other Relevant
Securities;
(ii) any failure or delay in giving a Trigger Event Notice or other notice required
by this Condition 8;
(iii) any failure or delay in quotation of the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to be
issued on Conversion;
(iv) any failure or delay by a Subordinated Noteholder or any other party in
complying with the provisions of Condition 7.4; and
(v) any requirement to select or adjust the number or Principal Amount of
Subordinated Notes to be Converted in accordance with Condition 7.3(b)(ii)
or 7.3(c); and
(g) acknowledges and agrees that if, in respect of a Conversion, ANZGHL has issued
the Conversion Number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to the holder of Subordinated
Notes but the Subordinated Note or portion thereof has not been transferred free
from encumbrance to or as directed by ANZGHL, the Subordinated Note or such
portion shall be Written-Off in accordance with Condition 8.7 without prejudice to the
issue of the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares.
8.7 Meaning of “Written-Off”
For the purposes of Condition 8, “Written-Off” shall mean that, in respect of a Subordinated
Note or portion thereof that is otherwise subject to Conversion and a Trigger Event Date:
(a) the Subordinated Note or portion thereof that is otherwise subject to Conversion will
not be Converted on that date and will not be Converted or redeemed under these
Conditions on any subsequent date; and
(b) with effect on and from the Trigger Event Date, the rights of the relevant
Subordinated Noteholder of the Subordinated Note or portion thereof (including any
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right to receive any payment thereunder including payments of principal and interest
both in the future and accrued but unpaid as at the Trigger Event Date) in relation to
such Subordinated Note or portion thereof are immediately and irrevocably
terminated and written-off; and
“Write-Off” has a corresponding meaning.
9 Write-Off of Subordinated Notes
9.1 Write-Off of Subordinated Notes on Trigger Event Date
If "Write-Off – Applicable" is specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement, Condition 9 shall
apply to the Subordinated Notes and on the Trigger Event Date the rights of the Subordinated
Noteholder of the relevant Subordinated Notes in relation to the relevant Principal Amount (as
determined under Condition 7.3) of the Subordinated Notes are Written-Off (as that term is
defined for the purposes of Condition 9).
Each Subordinated Noteholder irrevocably acknowledges and agrees that no conditions or
events will affect the operation of this Condition 9 and such Subordinated Noteholder will not
have any rights to vote in respect of any Write-Off under this Condition 9.1.
9.2 Meaning of “Written-Off”
For the purposes of this Condition 9, “Written-Off” shall mean that, in respect of a
Subordinated Note or portion thereof and a Trigger Event Date, the rights of the relevant
Subordinated Noteholder (including any right to receive any payment thereunder including
payments of principal and interest both in the future and accrued but unpaid as at the Trigger
Event Date) in relation to such Subordinated Note or portion thereof are immediately and
irrevocably terminated and written-off, and “Write-Off” has a corresponding meaning.
10 Substitution of Issuer
10.1 Application of this Conditions
Unless "Write-Off – Applicable" is specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement, this Condition
10 shall apply to the Subordinated Notes.
10.2 Substitution of Approved NOHC
Where:
(a) either of the following occurs:
(i) a takeover bid is made to acquire all or some of the ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares and such offer is, or becomes, unconditional and either:
(A) the bidder has at any time during the offer period, a relevant interest
in more than 50 per cent. of the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares on issue;
or
(B) the directors of the ANZGHL, acting as a board, issue a statement
that at least a majority of its directors who are eligible to do so have
recommended acceptance of such offer (in the absence of a higher
offer); or
(ii) a court orders the holding of meetings to approve a scheme of arrangement
under Part 5.1 of the Corporations Act, which scheme would result in a
person having a relevant interest in more than 50 per cent. of the ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares that will be on issue after the scheme is implemented and:
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(A) all classes of members of ANZGHL pass all resolutions required to
approve the scheme by the majorities required under the
Corporations Act, to approve the scheme; and
(B) an independent expert issues a report that the proposals in
connection with the scheme are in the best interests of the holders
of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares; and
(b) the bidder or the person having a relevant interest in the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares in
the ANZGHL after the scheme is implemented (or any entity that Controls the bidder
or the person having the relevant interest) is an Approved NOHC,
then the Issuer without further authority, assent or approval of the Subordinated Noteholders
may (but with the prior written approval of APRA):
(c) amend these Conditions such that, unless APRA otherwise agrees, on the date the
Principal Amount of Subordinated Notes is to be Converted:
(i) each Subordinated Note that is being Converted in whole will be
automatically transferred by each holder of such Subordinated Note free
from encumbrance to the Approved NOHC (or another member of the ANZ
Group which is a holding company of the Issuer) (the "Transferee") on the
date the Conversion is to occur;
(ii) in respect of each Subordinated Note that is being Converted only in part, on
the date the Conversion is to occur:
(A) the Principal Amount of the Subordinated Note that is being
Converted shall be reduced to an amount equal to the non-
Converted portion of the Principal Amount of such Subordinated
Note in accordance with Condition 7.4; and
(B) the Approved NOHC will be taken to hold a new Subordinated Note
with a Principal Amount equal to the Converted portion of the
Principal Amount of the Subordinated Note being Converted,
provided that any failure or delay by a Subordinated Noteholder or any other
party in complying with the provisions of Condition 10.2(c)(ii) shall not
prevent, impede or delay the Conversion or Write-Off of Subordinated Notes;
(iii) each holder (or a nominee in accordance with Condition 8.2 or 8.4 (as
applicable), which provisions shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to such
Approved NOHC Ordinary Shares) of the Subordinated Note or portion
thereof being Converted will be issued a number of Approved NOHC
Ordinary Shares equal to the Conversion Number and the provisions of the
Schedule to these Conditions shall apply (with any necessary changes) to
the determination of the number of such Approved NOHC Ordinary Shares;
(iv) as between the Issuer and the Transferee, each Subordinated Note held by
the Transferee as a result of Condition 10.2(c)(i) will be automatically
Converted into a number of ANZBGL Ordinary Shares in a number and at a
price such that the issued share capital held by the Transferee (or a wholly
owned subsidiary of the Transferee) increases by the amount by which the
issued ordinary share capital of the Approved NOHC increases on
Conversion; and
(v) make such other amendments as in the Issuer’s reasonable opinion are
necessary or appropriate to effect the substitution of an Approved NOHC as
the provider of the ordinary shares on Conversion in the manner
contemplated by these Conditions, including, where the terms upon which
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the Approved NOHC acquires the Issuer are such that the number of
Approved NOHC Ordinary Shares on issue immediately after the substitution
differs from the number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares on issue immediately
before that substitution (not involving any cash payment or other distribution
to or by the holders of any such shares), an adjustment to any relevant
VWAP or Issue Date VWAP consistent with the principles of adjustment set
out in the Schedule to these Conditions.
10.3 Notice of substitution of Approved NOHC
The Issuer shall give a notice to the Subordinated Noteholders as soon as practicable after
the substitution in accordance with Condition 10.2 specifying the amendments to these
Conditions which will be made in accordance with Condition 10.2 to effect the substitution of
an Approved NOHC as issuer of ordinary shares on Conversion.
10.4 Further substitutions
After a substitution under Condition 10.2, the Approved NOHC may without the authority,
approval or assent of the holder of Subordinated Notes, effect a further substitution in
accordance with Condition 10.2 (with necessary changes).
11 Payments
11.1 Payments by the Issuer
(a) Payments in respect of interest or principal on any Note made by the Issuer to
Holders will be made in accordance with details recorded with the Registrar by 5:00
pm local Registry Office time on the relevant Record Date.
(b) When a Note is recorded in the Register as being held jointly, payment of interest or
principal (as the case may be) by the Issuer will be made to the Holders in their joint
names unless requested otherwise (and in a form satisfactory to the Issuer) by 5:00
pm local Registry Office time on the relevant Record Date.
11.2 Method of Payment
Payments in respect of each Note will be made:
(a) where the Notes are lodged in the Austraclear System, by crediting on the relevant
Interest Payment Date or Maturity Date (determined in accordance with the Business
Day Convention specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement) the amount then due to
the account of the relevant Holder in accordance with the Austraclear Regulations; or
(b) if the relevant Notes have not been lodged or are removed from the Austraclear
System, by crediting on the relevant Interest Payment Date, in the case of payments
of interest, or the Maturity Date, in the case of payments of principal, the amount then
due to a bank account in Australia previously notified by the Holder to the Registrar.
Each Interest Payment Date and Maturity Date shall be determined in accordance
with the Business Day Convention specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement. If
the Holder has not notified the Registrar of such an account by 5.00pm local Registry
Office time on the relevant Record Date or upon application by the Holder to the
Registrar no later than 5.00pm local Registry Office time on the relevant Record
Date, payments in respect of the relevant Note will be made by cheque mailed on the
Business Day immediately preceding the relevant Interest Payment Date in the case
of payments of interest or on the Maturity Date, in the case of payments of principal,
at the Holder’s risk to the Holder (or to the first named of joint Holders) of such Note
at the address appearing in the Register as at 5.00pm local Registry Office time on
the relevant Record Date. Cheques to be despatched to the nominated address of a
Holder will in such case be deemed to have been received by the Holder on the
relevant Interest Payment Date, in the case of payments of interest, or the Maturity
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Date, in the case of payments of principal, and no further amount will be payable by
the Issuer in respect of the relevant Note as a result of payment not being received
by the Holder on the due date.
No payment of interest will be mailed to an address in the United States or transferred to an
account maintained by the Holder in the United States.
11.3 Payments Subject to Fiscal Laws
All payments are subject in all cases to any applicable fiscal or other laws, regulations and
directives, but without prejudice to the provisions of Condition 13. No commission or
expenses shall be charged to the Holders in respect of such payments.
11.4 Appointment of Agents
The Registrar and (if appointed) the Calculation Agent act solely as agents of the Issuer and
do not assume any obligation or relationship of agency or trust for or with any Holder. The
Issuer reserves the right at any time to vary or terminate the appointment of the Registrar or
(if appointed) the Calculation Agent, provided that the Issuer shall at all times maintain (i) a
Registrar, (ii) one or more Calculation Agent(s) where the Conditions so require, and (iii) such
other agents as may be required by the rules of any stock exchange, listing authority and/or
quotation system on which the Notes may be admitted to listing, trading and/or quotation.
Notice of any change to the specified office of the Registrar or the Calculation Agent shall
promptly be given to the Holders in accordance with Condition 19.
12 Transfer
12.1 Transfer
(a) Unless Notes are lodged in the Austraclear System, and subject to Condition 12.2, all
applications to transfer Notes must be made by lodging with the Registrar a properly
completed transfer and acceptance form in the form approved by the Issuer and the
Registrar. Any Certificate relating to the Notes to be transferred must also be
surrendered to the Registrar. Transfer and acceptance forms are available from any
Registry Office. Each Registry Office will provide prompt marking and transfer
services. Each transfer form must be accompanied by such evidence (if any) as the
Registrar may require to prove the title of the transferor or the transferor’s right to
transfer the Note, and be signed by both the transferor and the transferee. The
transfer takes effect upon the transferee’s name being entered on the Register.
(b) Notes lodged in the Austraclear System will be transferable only in accordance with
the Austraclear Regulations.
12.2 Limit on Transfer
(a) Notes may only be transferred within, to or from Australia in the denominations
specified in the Pricing Supplement and if the consideration payable at the time of
transfer is a minimum amount of A$500,000 (in either case, disregarding moneys lent
by the transferor or its associates) or the transfer otherwise does not require
disclosure to investors in accordance with Part 6D.2 and Chapter 7 of the
Corporations Act.
(b) Notes may only be transferred between persons in a jurisdiction or jurisdictions other
than Australia if the transfer is in compliance with the laws of the jurisdiction in which
the transfer takes place and the transfer of the Notes otherwise does not require
disclosure to investors in accordance with the laws of the jurisdiction in which the
transfer takes place.
12.3 Partial Transfers
Where a transferor executes a transfer of less than all Notes registered in its name, and the
identity of the specific Notes to be transferred are not identified, the Registrar may register
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the transfer in respect of such of the Notes registered in the name of the transferor as the
Registrar thinks fit, provided the total Principal Amount of the Notes registered as having
been transferred equals the total Principal Amount of the Notes expressed to be transferred
in the transfer.
12.4 Closed Period
A transfer of a Note shall not be effective unless and until entered on the Register. The
Register will be closed for the purpose of determining entitlements to payments of interest
and repayments of any Principal Amount at 5:00 pm local Registry Office time on the Record
Date prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date, the relevant Maturity Date and any relevant
redemption date. Therefore, transfers must be received by the Registrar at the relevant
Registry Office prior to that time.
12.5 Stamp Duty
The Holder is responsible for any stamp duties or other similar taxes which are payable in
any jurisdiction in connection with any transfer, assignment or other dealing with the Notes.
12.6 Transmission
The Registrar must register a transfer of a Note to or by a person who is entitled to make or
receive the transfer in consequence of:
(a) death, bankruptcy, liquidation or winding-up of a Holder; or
(b) the making of a vesting order by a court or other body with power to make the order,
on receiving the evidence of entitlement that the Registrar or the Issuer requires.
12.7 Austraclear Services Limited as Registrar
If Austraclear Services Limited is the Registrar and Notes are lodged in the Austraclear
System, despite any other provision of those Conditions, these Notes are not transferable on
the Register, and the Issuer may not, and must procure that the Registrar does not, register
any transfer of those Notes issued by it and no member of the Austraclear System has the
right to request any registration of any transfer of the relevant Notes, except:
(a) for the purposes of any Conversion, Write-Off, repurchase, redemption or
cancellation (whether on or before the Maturity Date of the relevant Note) of the
relevant Note, a transfer of the relevant Note from Austraclear to the Issuer (or if
applicable, to an Approved NOHC in accordance with Condition10) may be entered
in the Register; and
(b) if Austraclear exercises or purports to exercise any power it may have under the
Austraclear Regulations from time to time for the Austraclear System or these
Conditions, to require the relevant Note to be transferred on the Register to a
member of the Austraclear System, the relevant Note may be transferred on the
Register from Austraclear to the member of the Austraclear System.
In any of these cases, the relevant Note will cease to be held in the Austraclear System.
13 Taxation
13.1 General
Subject as provided below, all payments of principal and interest in respect of the Notes shall
be made free and clear of, and without withholding or deduction for, any taxes, duties,
assessments or governmental charges of whatever nature imposed, levied, collected,
withheld or assessed by or within Australia or by any authority therein or thereof having
power to tax (together, “Taxes”), unless such withholding or deduction is required by law.
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13.2 Issuer to pay additional amounts
Where such withholding or deduction is required by law, the Issuer shall pay such additional
amounts to Holders as shall result in receipt by those Holders of such amounts as would
have been received by them had no such withholding or deduction been required, except that
no such additional amounts shall be payable with respect to any Note:
(a) in respect of which the Holder thereof is liable to such Taxes, duties, assessments or
governmental charges in respect of such Note by reason of its having some
connection with Australia, other than the mere holding of such Note or the receipt of
the relevant payment in respect thereof; or
(b) to the extent that the relevant Tax is imposed or levied by virtue of the Holder, or the
beneficial owner, of the Note not complying with any statutory requirements or not
having made a declaration of non-residence in, or lack of connection with, a relevant
jurisdiction or any similar claim for exemption; or
(c) in respect of which the Holder thereof is an Offshore Associate of the Issuer (acting
other than in the capacity of a clearing house, paying agent, custodian, funds
manager or responsible entity of a registered scheme within the meaning of the
Corporations Act); or
(d) in respect of which the Taxes have been imposed or levied as a result of the Holder
of such Note being party to or participating in a scheme to avoid such Taxes, being a
scheme which the Issuer was neither a party to nor participated in; or
(e) to, or to a third party on behalf of, an Australian resident Holder or a non-resident
Holder who is engaged in carrying on business in Australia at or through a
permanent establishment of the non-resident in Australia, if that person has not
supplied an appropriate tax file number, Australian business number or other
exemption details; or
(f) to a Holder that is not the beneficial owner of such Note to the extent that the
beneficial owner thereof would not have been entitled to the payment of such
additional amounts had such beneficial owner been the Holder of such Note.
13.3 Tax File Number
The Issuer will deduct tax from payments of interest on the Notes at the highest marginal tax
rate plus the highest Medicare levy if an Australian resident investor or a non-resident
investor carrying on business in Australia at or through a permanent establishment of the
non-resident in Australia has not supplied an appropriate tax file number, Australian Business
Number or exemption details.
13.4 References
References in these Conditions to (i) “principal” shall be deemed to include any premium
payable in respect of the Notes (other than Subordinated Notes for which there is no premium
payable), all Instalment Amounts, Final Redemption Amounts, Early Redemption Amounts,
Optional Redemption Amounts, Amortised Face Amounts and all other amounts in the nature
of principal payable pursuant to Condition 6, or any amendment or supplement to it, (ii)
“interest” shall be deemed to include all Interest Amounts and all other amounts payable
pursuant to Condition 4, or any amendment or supplement to it and (iii) “principal” and/or
“interest” shall be deemed to include any additional amounts that may be payable under this
Condition or any undertaking given in addition to or substitution for it under the Deed Poll.
Any additional amounts due in respect of the Subordinated Notes will be subordinated in right
of payment as described in Condition 3.2, Condition 5.16 and Condition 16.
If the Issuer is or becomes subject at any time to any taxing jurisdiction other than or in
addition to Australia, references in Condition 6.2 and Condition 13 shall be read and
construed as including references to such other taxing jurisdiction(s).
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13.5 FATCA
The Issuer or ANZGHL may withhold or make deductions from payments or from the issue of
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to a Noteholder where it is required to do so under or in
connection with FATCA, or where it has reasonable grounds to suspect that the Noteholder
or a beneficial owner of the Notes may be subject to FATCA, and may deal with such
payment, and any ANZGHL Ordinary Shares in accordance with FATCA. If any withholding or
deduction arises under or in connection with FATCA, neither the Issuer nor ANZGHL will be
required to pay any further amounts or issue any further ANZGHL Ordinary Shares on
account of such withholding or deduction or otherwise reimburse or compensate, or make
any payment to, a Noteholder or a beneficial owner of the Notes for or in respect of any such
withholding or deduction. A dealing with such payment and any ANZGHL Ordinary Shares in
accordance with FATCA satisfies the obligations of the Issuer (and, as applicable, ANZGHL)
to that Noteholder to the extent of the amount of that payment or issue of ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares.
14 Prescription
Claims against the Issuer for payment in respect of the Notes shall be prescribed and
become void unless made within ten years (in the case of principal) or five years (in the case
of interest) from the appropriate Relevant Date in respect of them.
15 Events of Default
15.1 Medium Term Notes
If any one of the following events (“Events of Default”) occurs and is continuing, the Holder
of any Medium Term Note of any Series may give written notice to the Registrar at its
Registry Office that such Medium Term Note is immediately repayable, whereupon it shall
immediately become due and repayable at its Early Redemption Amount together with
accrued interest to the date of payment unless, prior to the date that such written notice is
received by the Registrar, the Issuer shall have cured or otherwise made good all Events of
Default in respect of the Medium Term Notes of such Series:
(a) default is made in the payment of:
(i) any principal or Final Redemption Amount, Early Redemption Amount,
Optional Redemption Amount, Instalment Amount or Amortised Face
Amount (in the case of a Zero Coupon Note) (whether becoming due upon
redemption or otherwise) when due, in respect of any Medium Term Note of
such Series, and such default continues for a period of 15 days; or
(ii) any interest when due, in respect of any Medium Term Note of such Series,
and such default continues for a period of 30 days; or
(b) the Issuer fails to perform or observe any of its obligations under any Medium Term
Note of such Series other than those specified in paragraph (a) above and in such
case (except where such failure is incapable of remedy) such failure continues for a
period of 30 days next following the service by any Holder of any Medium Term Note
of such Series on the Issuer of written notice requiring the same to be remedied; or
(c) otherwise than for the purpose of an amalgamation or reconstruction or merger within
the meaning of these words under the laws of Australia, a resolution is passed that
the Issuer be wound up or dissolved; or
(d) the Issuer stops payment (within the meaning of Australian or any other applicable
bankruptcy law) of its obligations; or
(e) an encumbrancer takes possession of or a receiver is appointed of the whole or a
substantial part of the undertaking and assets of the Issuer and any such event is
continuing for 45 days after its occurrence and would materially prejudice the
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performance by the Issuer of its obligations under the Medium Term Notes of such
Series or a distress or execution is levied or enforced upon or sued out against the
whole or a substantial part of the undertaking and assets of the Issuer which would
materially prejudice the performance of the Issuer of its obligations under the Medium
Term Notes of such Series and is not discharged within 60 days thereof; or
(f) proceedings shall have been initiated against the Issuer under any applicable
bankruptcy, reorganisation or other similar law and such proceedings shall not have
been discharged or stayed within a period of 60 days; or
(g) the Issuer shall initiate or consent to proceedings relating to itself under any
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, composition or other similar law (otherwise than
for the purpose of amalgamation, reconstruction or merger (within the meaning of
those words under the laws of Australia)) and such proceedings would materially
prejudice the performance by the Issuer of its obligations under the Medium Term
Notes of such Series.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Condition 15.1, no Event of Default in respect of
any Medium Term Note shall occur solely on account of any failure by the Issuer to perform
or observe its obligations in relation to, or the taking of any process or proceeding in respect
of any share, note or other security or instrument constituting Tier 1 Capital or Tier 2 Capital.
15.2 Subordinated Notes
The following are Events of Default with respect to Subordinated Notes:
(a) The:
(i) making of an order by a court of the State of Victoria, Australia or a court
with appellate jurisdiction from such court which is not successfully appealed
or permanently stayed within 60 days of the entry of such order; or
(ii) valid passing by the Issuer's shareholders of an effective resolution,
in each case for the winding-up of the Issuer (other than under or in connection with
a scheme of amalgamation or reconstruction not involving bankruptcy or insolvency);
and
(b) Subject to Condition 5.16:
(i) default in the payment of interest on any Subordinated Note when due,
continued for 30 days; or
(ii) default in the payment of principal of any Subordinated Note when due.
Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default specified in paragraph (a) above, subject
to the subordination provisions, the Principal Amount of, and all accrued and unpaid
interest on, the Subordinated Notes will automatically become due and payable.
If an Event of Default contemplated by paragraph (b) above with respect to any
Subordinated Notes occurs and is continuing, a Subordinated Noteholder may only,
in order to enforce the obligations of the Issuer under such Subordinated Notes:
(A) notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (B) below, institute
proceedings in the State of Victoria, Australia (but not elsewhere) for
the winding-up of the Issuer (all subject to, and in accordance with,
the terms of Condition 16); or
(B) institute proceedings for recovery of the money then due, provided
that the Issuer will not, by virtue of the institution of any such
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proceedings (other than proceedings for the winding-up of the
Issuer) be obliged to pay any sums representing principal or interest
in respect of the Subordinated Notes sooner than the same would
otherwise have been payable by it and provided that the Issuer is
Solvent at the time of, and will be Solvent immediately after, any
such payment.
No remedy against the Issuer other than those referred to in this Condition 15.2, shall be
available to the Subordinated Noteholders, whether for the recovery of amounts owing in
respect of the Subordinated Notes or in respect of any breach by the issuer of any of its other
obligations under or in respect of the Subordinated Notes.
15.3 Notification
If an Event of Default occurs under Conditions 15.1 or 15.2 above, the Issuer will promptly
after becoming aware of it notify the Registrar of the occurrence of the Event of Default
specifying details of it and use its reasonable endeavours to procure that the Registrar
promptly notifies the Holders of the occurrence of the Event of Default by registered post to
the address of the Holders recorded in the Register.
16 Subordination
In the event of the winding-up of the Issuer constituting an Event of Default with respect to the
Subordinated Notes, there shall be payable with respect to the Subordinated Notes, subject
to the subordination provisions discussed above (see Condition 3.2 and Condition 5.16), an
amount equal to the Principal Amount of the Subordinated Notes then outstanding, together
with all accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the repayment date.
As a result of the subordination provisions, no amount will be payable in the winding-up of the
Issuer in Australia in respect of the Subordinated Notes until all claims of Senior Creditors
admitted in the winding-up proceeding have been satisfied in full. By subscription for, or
transfer of, Subordinated Notes to a Subordinated Noteholder, that Subordinated Noteholder
will be taken to have agreed that no amount in respect of the Subordinated Notes will be
repaid until all the claims of the Senior Creditors admitted in the winding-up proceeding have
been satisfied accordingly. Accordingly, if proceedings with respect to the winding-up of the
Issuer in Australia were to occur, the Subordinated Noteholders could recover less relative to
the holders of deposit liabilities, the holders of Medium Term Notes and the holders of prior
ranking subordinated liabilities of the Issuer.
If in any such winding-up, the amount payable with respect to the Subordinated Notes and
any claims ranking equally with those Subordinated Notes cannot be paid in full, those
Subordinated Notes and other claims ranking equally with those Subordinated Notes will
share relatively in any distribution of the Issuer's assets in a winding-up in proportion to the
respective amounts to which they are entitled.
Any amount not paid due to Condition 5.16 or Condition 15.2, remains a debt owing to the
Noteholder by the Issuer until it is paid and will be payable on the first date on which payment
can be made in compliance with the relevant Condition.
17 Meetings of Holders, Modifications and Waiver
17.1 Meetings of Holders
Meetings of Holders may be convened in accordance with the Meeting Provisions contained
in Schedule 2 to the Deed Poll. Any such meeting may consider any matters affecting the
interests of Holders, including, without limitation, the variation of the terms of the Notes by the
Issuer and the granting of approvals, consents and waivers, and the declaration of an Event
of Default.
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17.2 Modification of the Deed Poll
Subject to Condition 17.3:
(a) the Deed Poll or the terms of any Series of Notes may be amended by the Issuer,
without the consent of any Holder, if in the opinion of the Issuer, the amendment:
(i) is necessary or advisable to comply with any law;
(ii) is necessary to correct an obvious error or omission, or is otherwise of a
formal, minor, technical or administrative nature only;
(iii) is made for the purpose of curing any ambiguity or of curing, correcting or
supplementing any defective provision;
(iv) is not materially prejudicial to the rights of Holders generally; or
(v) only applies to Notes issued by the Issuer after the date of the amendment;
and
(b) in all other circumstances, the Deed Poll or the terms of any Series of Notes may be
amended with the approval of Holders by an Extraordinary Resolution. The Issuer
will notify the Registrar of any amendments made pursuant to this Condition and will
use its reasonable endeavours to procure that the Registrar notifies the Holders of
the amendment by post to the address of the Holders recorded in the Register.
In the case of an amendment to the terms of any Series of Notes, reference in this Condition
17.2 to “Holders” are to be taken to refer to the Holders of that Series of Notes.
17.3 No changes which may affect Tier 2 Capital eligibility
The prior written approval of APRA is required in respect of any modification, abrogation,
variation, amendment, waiver or compromise in respect of the terms of any Series of
Subordinated Notes or the Deed Poll where such modification, abrogation, variation,
amendment, waiver or compromise may affect the eligibility of any Series of Subordinated
Notes as Tier 2 Capital.
18 Further Issues of Notes
The Issuer may from time to time without the consent of the Holders create and issue further
securities either having the same terms and conditions as the Notes in all respects (or in all
respects except for the Issue Date or first payment of interest on them) and so that such
further issue of securities shall be consolidated and form a single Series with the outstanding
Notes of any Series or upon such terms as the Issuer may determine at the time of their
issue. References in these Conditions to the Notes include (unless the context requires
otherwise) any other securities issued pursuant to this Condition and forming a single Series
with the Notes.
19 Notices
19.1 To Holders
All notices by the Issuer to Holders must be in writing and may be:
(a) posted by ordinary mail to the relevant Holder at its address appearing on the
Register (or in the case of joint Holders to the first named) and, if so, shall be
deemed to have been given on the sixth Business Day after posting if posted to an
address in Australia and on the tenth Business Day if posted to an address outside of
Australia; or
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(b) given by the Issuer publishing the notice on its website and announcing the
publication of the notice to ASX and shall be deemed to have been given when the
announcement is made on ASX.
19.2 To the Issuer and Registrar
All notices by a Holder to the Issuer and Registrar will be valid if posted by ordinary mail to
the Issuer and the Registrar at their addresses specified above. Unless a later time is
specified in it, a notice by a Holder takes effect from the time it is received by the Issuer or
Registrar except that if it is received after 5.00pm in the place of receipt or not on a Business
Day, it is to be taken to be received at 9.00am on the next succeeding Business Day in that
place.
20 Governing Law
The Notes are governed by the laws in force in the State of Victoria and Australia.
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Schedule to the Conditions of the Notes
1 Conversion
If ANZGHL must Convert a Principal Amount of a Subordinated Note in accordance with the
Conditions, then, subject to this Schedule and Condition 10.2 and unless the Pricing
Supplement specifies that the Alternative Conversion Number applies, the following
provisions apply (provided, in all cases, that where a Subordinated Note is required to be
Converted only in part, references in this Schedule to the "Subordinated Note" shall be taken
to be references to the "Affected Subordinated Note" as defined in Condition 7.4(b)):
(a) the Subordinated Note will be automatically transferred free from any encumbrance
to ANZGHL on the Trigger Event Date;
(b) ANZGHL will allot and issue on the Trigger Event Date a number of ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares in respect of the Principal Amount of that Subordinated Note equal
to the “Conversion Number”, where the Conversion Number (but subject to the
Conversion Number being no more than the Maximum Conversion Number) is a
number calculated according to the following formula:
Conversion Number =
Principal Amount
((1- CD) × VWAP)
where:
“CD” means the conversion discount specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement;
“VWAP” (expressed in dollars and cents) means the VWAP during the VWAP Period
and where the “Maximum Conversion Number” means a number calculated
according to the following formula:
Maximum Conversion Number =
Principal Amount
Issue Date VWAP × 0.2
(c) on the Trigger Event Date the rights of each Subordinated Noteholder (including to
payment of interest with respect to such Principal Amount, both in the future and as
accrued but unpaid as at the Trigger Event Date) in relation to each Subordinated
Note or portion thereof that is being Converted will be automatically transferred for an
amount equal to the Principal Amount of that Subordinated Note that is being
Converted and that Principal Amount will be applied in accordance with the Deed of
Undertaking by way of payment for subscription for the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to
be allotted and issued under Section 1(b) of this Schedule and the Deed of
Undertaking. Each Subordinated Noteholder is taken to have irrevocably directed
that any amount payable under Section 1 of this Schedule is to be applied as
provided for in Section 1 of this Schedule and no Subordinated Noteholder has any
right to payment in any other way;
(d) any calculation under Section 1(b) of this Schedule shall be, unless the context
requires otherwise, be rounded to four decimal places provided that if the total
number of additional ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to be allotted to a Subordinated
Noteholder in respect of the aggregate Principal Amount of the Subordinated Notes it
holds which is being Converted includes a fraction of an ANZGHL Ordinary Share,
that fraction of an ANZGHL Ordinary Share will be disregarded;
(e) the rights attaching to ANZGHL Ordinary Shares issued as a result of Conversion do
not take effect until 5.00pm (Melbourne, Australia time) on the Trigger Event Date
(unless another time is required for Conversion on that date). At that time all other
rights conferred or restrictions imposed on that Subordinated Note under the
Conditions will no longer have effect to the extent of the Principal Amount of that
Subordinated Note being Converted (except for the right to receive the ANZGHL
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Ordinary Shares as set forth in Section 1 of this Schedule and Condition 8 and
except for rights relating to interest which is payable but has not been paid on or
before the Trigger Event Date which will continue); and
(f) under the arrangements as agreed between, amongst others, ANZGHL and the
Issuer and relevant members of the ANZ Group, deal with the Subordinated Notes
being Converted so that they are converted into ANZBGL Ordinary Shares and
terminated (the "Related Conversion Steps").
2 Adjustments to VWAP
For the purposes of calculating VWAP in the Conditions:
(a) where, on some or all of the Business Days in the relevant VWAP Period, ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares have been quoted on the Australian Securities Exchange as cum
dividend or cum any other distribution or entitlement and the relevant Principal
Amount of Subordinated Notes will Convert into ANZGHL Ordinary Shares after the
date those ANZGHL Ordinary Shares no longer carry that dividend or any other
distribution or entitlement, then the VWAP on the Business Days on which those
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares have been quoted cum dividend or cum any other
distribution or entitlement shall be reduced by an amount ("Cum Value") equal to:
(i) (in case of a dividend or other distribution), the amount of that dividend or
other distribution including, if the dividend or other distribution is franked, the
amount that would be included in the assessable income of a recipient of the
dividend or other distribution who is both a resident of Australia and a natural
person under the Tax Act;
(ii) (in the case of any other entitlement that is not a dividend or other
distribution under Section 2(a)(i) of this Schedule which is traded on the
Australian Securities Exchange on any of those Business Days), the volume
weighted average sale price of all such entitlements sold on the Australian
Securities Exchange during the VWAP Period on the Business Days on
which those entitlements were traded; or
(iii) (in the case of any other entitlement which is not traded on the Australian
Securities Exchange during the VWAP Period), the value of the entitlement
as reasonably determined by the directors of ANZGHL; and
(b) where, on some or all of the Business Days in the VWAP Period, ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares have been quoted on the Australian Securities Exchange as ex dividend or
ex any other distribution or entitlement, and the relevant Principal Amount of
Subordinated Notes will Convert into ANZGHL Ordinary Shares which would be
entitled to receive the relevant dividend or other distribution or entitlement, the VWAP
on the Business Days on which those ANZGHL Ordinary Shares have been quoted
ex dividend or ex any other distribution or entitlement shall be increased by the Cum
Value.
3 Adjustments to VWAP for divisions and similar transactions
(a) Where during the relevant VWAP Period there is a change in the number of the
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares on issue as a result of a division, consolidation or
reclassification of ANZGHL’s share capital (not involving any cash payment or other
distribution (or compensation) to or by holders of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares) (a
"Reorganisation"), in calculating the VWAP for that VWAP Period the daily VWAP
applicable on each day in the relevant VWAP Period which falls before the date on
which trading in ANZGHL Ordinary Shares is conducted on a post Reorganisation
basis shall be adjusted by multiplying such daily VWAP by the following formula:
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A
B
where:
A means the aggregate number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares immediately before the
Reorganisation; and
B means the aggregate number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares immediately after the
Reorganisation.
(b) Any adjustment made in accordance with Section 3(a) of this Schedule will, absent
manifest error, be effective and binding on Subordinated Noteholders under these
Conditions and these Conditions will be construed accordingly. Any such adjustment
must be promptly notified to all Subordinated Noteholders.
4 Adjustments to Issue Date VWAP
For the purposes of determining the Issue Date VWAP, corresponding adjustments to VWAP
will be made in accordance with Section 2 and Section 3 of this Schedule during the 20
Business Day period over which VWAP is calculated for the purposes of determining the
Issue Date VWAP. On and from the Issue Date adjustments to the Issue Date VWAP:
(a) may be made in accordance with Sections 5 to 7 of this Schedule (inclusive); and
(b) if so made, will cause an adjustment to the Maximum Conversion Number.
5 Adjustments to Issue Date VWAP for bonus issues
(a) Subject to Section 5(b) of this Schedule below, if at any time after the Issue Date
ANZGHL makes a pro rata bonus issue of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to holders of
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares generally, the Issue Date VWAP will be adjusted
immediately in accordance with the following formula:
V = V
o
x
RD
RD + RN
where:
V means the Issue Date VWAP applying immediately after the application of this
formula;
V
o
means the Issue Date VWAP applying immediately prior to the application of this
formula;
RN means the number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares issued pursuant to the bonus
issue; and
RD means the number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares on issue immediately prior to the
allotment of new ANZGHL Ordinary Shares pursuant to the bonus issue.
(b) Section 5(a) of this Schedule does not apply to ANZGHL Ordinary Shares issued as
part of a bonus share plan, employee or executive share plan, executive option plan,
share top up plan, share purchase plan or a dividend reinvestment plan.
(c) For the purpose of Section 5(a) of this Schedule, an issue will be regarded as a pro
rata issue notwithstanding that ANZGHL does not make offers to some or all holders
of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares with registered addresses outside Australia, provided
that in so doing ANZGHL is not in contravention of the ASX Listing Rules.
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(d) No adjustments to the Issue Date VWAP will be made under this Section 5 of this
Schedule for any offer of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares not covered by Section 5(a) of
this Schedule, including a rights issue or other essentially pro rata issue.
(e) The fact that no adjustment is made for an issue of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares except
as covered by Section 5(a) of this Schedule shall not in any way restrict ANZGHL
from issuing ANZGHL Ordinary Shares at any time on such terms as it sees fit nor
require any consent or concurrence of any Subordinated Noteholders.
6 Adjustment to Issue Date VWAP for divisions and similar
transactions
(a) If at any time after the Issue Date, a Reorganisation occurs, the Issuer shall adjust
the Issue Date VWAP by multiplying the Issue Date VWAP applicable on the
Business Day immediately before the date of any such Reorganisation by the
following formula:
A
B
where:
A means the aggregate number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares immediately before
the Reorganisation; and
B means the aggregate number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares immediately after the
Reorganisation.
(b) Any adjustment made by the Issuer in accordance with Section 6(a) of this
Schedule will, absent manifest error, be effective and binding on Subordinated
Noteholders under these Conditions and these Conditions will be construed
accordingly.
(c) Each Subordinated Noteholder acknowledges that the Issuer may, consolidate,
divide or reclassify securities so that there is a lesser or greater number of ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares at any time in its absolute discretion without any such action
requiring any consent or concurrence of any Subordinated Noteholders.
7 No adjustment to Issue Date VWAP in certain circumstances
Despite the provisions of Section 5 and Section 6 of this Schedule, no adjustment shall be
made to the Issue Date VWAP where such adjustment (rounded if applicable) would be less
than one per cent. of the Issue Date VWAP then in effect.
8 Announcement of adjustment to Issue Date VWAP
The Issuer will notify Subordinated Noteholders of any adjustment to the Issue Date VWAP
under this Schedule within ten Business Days of the Issuer determining the adjustment and
the adjustment set out in the announcement will be final and binding.
9 ANZGHL Ordinary Shares
Each ANZGHL Ordinary Share issued or arising upon Conversion ranks pari passu with all
other fully paid ANZGHL Ordinary Shares. The Subordinated Noteholders agree not to trade
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares issued on Conversion (except as permitted by the Corporations
Act, other applicable laws and the ASX Listing Rules) until ANZGHL has taken such steps as
are required by the Corporations Act, other applicable laws and the ASX Listing Rules for the
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to be freely tradeable without such further disclosure or other
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action and agree to allow ANZGHL to impose a holding lock or to refuse to register a transfer
in respect of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares until such time.
10 Listing ANZGHL Ordinary Shares issued on Conversion
ANZGHL shall use all reasonable endeavours to list the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares issued
upon Conversion of the Subordinated Notes on the Australian Securities Exchange.
11 Alternative Conversion Number
If the Issuer must Convert a Principal Amount of a Subordinated Note in accordance with the
Conditions and the Pricing Supplement specifies that the Alternative Conversion Number
applies, then:
(a) Section 1 of this Schedule applies on the basis that the Conversion Number for the
purposes of Section 1(b) of this Schedule is the number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares
specified in the Pricing Supplement as the Alternative Conversion Number (subject to
the Alternative Conversion Number being no more than the Maximum Conversion
Number as determined in accordance with Section 1(b) of this Schedule); and
(b) Sections 2 to 8 (inclusive) of this Schedule do not apply to the Alternative Conversion
Number.
12 Definitions
For the purposes of this Schedule the following terms shall have the following meanings:
Affected Subordinated Note has the meaning given in Condition 7.4(b).
Cum Value has the meaning given in Section 2 of this Schedule.
Issue Date VWAP means, in respect of Subordinated Notes of a Series, the VWAP during
the period of 20 Business Days on which trading in ANZGHL Ordinary Shares took place
immediately preceding (but not including) the first date on which any Subordinated Notes of
that Series were issued, as adjusted in accordance with Sections 4 to 7 (inclusive) of this
Schedule.
Reorganisation has the meaning given in Section 3 of this Schedule.
Tax Act means:
(a) the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 of Australia or the Income Tax Assessment
Act 1997 of Australia as the case may be and a reference to any section of the
Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 of Australia includes a reference to that section as
rewritten in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 of Australia; and
(b) any other Act setting the rate of income tax payable and any regulation promulgated
under it.
VWAP means, subject to any adjustments under this Schedule, the average of the daily
volume weighted average sale prices (such average being rounded to the nearest full cent) of
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares sold on the Australian Securities Exchange during the VWAP
Period or on the relevant days and where the currency of the Principal Amount in respect of
the Subordinated Note is not Australian Dollars, with each such daily price converted into the
Specified Currency on the basis of the spot rate of exchange for the sale of Australian Dollars
against the purchase of the relevant Specified Currency in the Sydney foreign exchange
market quoted by any leading bank selected by the Issuer on the relevant calculation date,
but does not include any Crossing transacted outside the Open Session State or any Special
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Crossing transacted at any time, each as defined in the ASX Operating Rules, or any
overseas trades or trades pursuant to the exercise of options over ANZGHL Ordinary Shares;
VWAP Period means the period of five Business Days or such other period specified in the
applicable Pricing Supplement on which trading in ANZGHL Ordinary Shares took place
immediately preceding (but not including) the Trigger Event Date.
13 Interpretation
In respect of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares, if the principal securities exchange on which the
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares are listed becomes other than the Australian Securities Exchange,
unless the context otherwise requires a reference to the Australian Securities Exchange shall
be read as a reference to that principal securities exchange and a reference to the ASX Listing
Rules, the ASX Operating Rules or any term defined in any such rules, shall be read as a
reference to the corresponding rules of that exchange or corresponding defined terms in such
rules (as the case may be).
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DESCRIPTION OF THE ANZGHL ORDINARY SHARES TO BE ISSUED UPON CONVERSION OF
SUBORDINATED NOTES THAT ARE SUBJECT TO CONVERSION
This section contains information relevant to the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares that are issuable upon
Conversion of Subordinated Notes if a Non-Viability Trigger Event occurs.
The Subordinated Notes are not guaranteed by any person, including ANZGHL. In particular,
ANZGHL does not (i) issue Subordinated Notes under this Programme; (ii) guarantee the Issuer’s
obligations generally or in connection with the Subordinated Notes; (iii) have any obligations in
respect of Subordinated Notes issued by the Issuer under this Programme, except to the extent
that such Subordinated Notes are subject to Conversion into ANZGHL Ordinary Shares as
provided in the terms of the Subordinated Notes.
Description of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares and ANZGHL’s Constitution
The rights and liabilities attaching to the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares are set out in the ANZGHL
constitution (“Constitution”) and are also regulated by the Corporations Act, the ASX Listing Rules and
the general law.
A summary of the key rights attaching to the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares is set out below. Any ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares issued upon Conversion of the Subordinated Notes will be fully paid ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares.
Voting rights
Subject to any rights or restrictions attached to any shares or class of shares, registered holders of an
ANZGHL Ordinary Share (“ANZGHL Shareholders”) are entitled to attend and vote at a general
meeting of ANZGHL. Any resolution being considered at a general meeting is decided on a show of
hands unless a poll is held. On a show of hands, each ANZGHL Shareholder present has one vote.
On a poll, each ANZGHL Shareholder has one vote for each ANZGHL Ordinary Share. Partly paid
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares confer that fraction of a vote which is equal to the proportion which the amount
paid bears to the total issue price of the ANZGHL Ordinary Share.
General meetings
Notice of a general meeting must be given to each ANZGHL Shareholder in accordance with the
Corporations Act. Each ANZGHL Shareholder is entitled to receive notices, financial statements and
other documents required to be provided to ANZGHL Shareholders under the Constitution, Corporations
Act and ASX Listing Rules.
Dividend entitlement
Subject to the Corporations Act, the Constitution and the terms of issue of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares,
the board of directors of ANZGHL (“ANZGHL Board”) may resolve to pay dividends on ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares which are considered by the ANZGHL Board to be appropriate, in proportion to the
capital paid up on the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares held by each ANZGHL Shareholder.
Payment of a dividend on ANZGHL Ordinary Shares may also be restricted by the terms of preference
shares and other hybrid securities carrying a prior right to the payment of a dividend or distribution.
Before paying any dividend, directors of ANZGHL must ensure that they are in compliance with APRA
prudential standards.
Dividend reinvestment plan and bonus option plan
ANZGHL Shareholders who are eligible may participate in ANZGHL's dividend reinvestment plan or
bonus option plan, as in force from time to time, in accordance with (and subject to) the rules of those
plans. ANZGHL Shareholders who are subject to the laws of a country or place other than Australia
may not be eligible to participate, because of legal requirements that apply in that country or place or in
Australia. Until the ANZGHL Board otherwise determines, participation in ANZGHL’s dividend
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reinvestment plan and bonus option plan is not available directly or indirectly to any entity or person
(including any legal or beneficial owner of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares) who is (or who is acting on behalf
of or for the account or benefit of an entity or person who is) in or resident in the United States (including
its territories or possessions) or Canada.
Rights of ANZGHL Shareholders on a winding-up of ANZGHL
lf ANZGHL is wound up and its property is more than sufficient to pay all debts, share capital of ANZGHL
and expenses of the winding-up, the excess must be divided among ANZGHL Shareholders in
proportion to the capital paid up on the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares at the commencement of the winding-
up (subject to the rights of holders of shares carrying preferred rights on winding-up). A partly paid
ANZGHL Ordinary Share is counted as a fraction of a fully paid ANZGHL Ordinary Share equal to the
proportion which the amount paid on it bears to the total issue price of the ANZGHL Ordinary Share.
However, with the sanction of a special resolution, the liquidator may divide among ANZGHL
Shareholders the assets of ANZGHL in kind and decide how the division is to be carried out or vest
assets in trustees of any trusts for the benefit of ANZGHL Shareholders as the liquidator thinks
appropriate.
Transfer of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares may be transferred by any means permitted by the Corporations Act or by
law. The ANZGHL Board may decline to register a transfer where permitted to do so under the ASX
Listing Rules or the settlement operating rules of the ASX (“ASX Settlement Operating Rules”), or
where registration of the transfer is forbidden by the Corporations Act, ASX Listing Rules or ASX
Settlement Operating Rules. ln addition, subject to the Corporations Act, ASX Listing Rules and ASX
Settlement Operating Rules, the ANZGHL Board may decline to register a transfer if registration would
create a new holding of less than a marketable parcel under the ASX Listing Rules.
lssues of further shares
Subject to the Constitution, Corporations Act and ASX Listing Rules, the ANZGHL Board may issue or
grant options in respect of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares on such terms as the ANZGHL Board decides.
The ANZGHL Board may also issue preference shares, including redeemable preference shares, or
convertible notes with preferred, deferred or special rights or restrictions in relation to dividends, voting,
return of capital and participation in surplus on a winding-up of ANZGHL.
Variation of the Constitution
The Constitution can only be modified by a special resolution in accordance with the Corporations Act.
Under the Corporations Act, for a resolution to be passed as a special resolution it must be passed by
at least 75 per cent. of the votes cast by members entitled to vote on the resolution.
Variation of rights
ANZGHL may only modify or vary the rights attaching to any class of shares with the prior approval, by
a special resolution, of the holders of shares in that class at a meeting of those holders, or with the
written consent of the holders of at least 75 per. cent of the issued shares of that class.
Subject to the terms of issue, the rights attached to a class of shares are not treated as varied by the
issue of further shares which rank equally with that existing class for participation in profits and assets
of ANZGHL.
Arrangements for holding and transfers of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares
Holdings and transfers of legal title to ANZGHL Ordinary Shares are recorded and effected via CHESS.
CHESS is used to facilitate the clearing and settlement of trades in shares and to provide an electronic
subregister for shares in companies listed on ASX.
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Deed of Undertaking
In respect of its obligations in connection with Conversion of Subordinated Notes, ANZGHL has entered
into the Deed of Undertaking for the benefit of holders of Subordinated Notes which are subject to
Conversion into ANZGHL Ordinary Shares. Under the Deed of Undertaking, ANZGHL undertakes to
perform its obligations relating to a Conversion (including in connection with the issue and delivery of
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to Subordinated Noteholders upon a Conversion), to use all reasonable
endeavours to list and procure quotation of the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares issued or arising from a
Conversion on the ASX, to ensure that the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares issued or arising from a
Conversion will rank equally with all other fully paid ANZGHL Ordinary Shares, and from the applicable
Trigger Event Date (subject to the provisions of the Subordinated Notes relating to Write-Off), to treat
each Subordinated Noteholder as the holder of the Conversion Number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to
take all such steps, including updating any register, required to record the Conversion, and to otherwise
comply with the terms of the Subordinated Notes.
ANZGHL has no other obligation or liability in respect of any Subordinated Note or portion thereof. The
remedies of a Subordinated Noteholder in respect of any failure of ANZGHL to issue the ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares upon a Conversion are limited in accordance with the terms of the Subordinated Notes
and the Deed of Undertaking, which provide that Subordinated Noteholders have no rights against
ANZGHL in respect of the Subordinated Notes other than (and subject always to where Write-Off
applies) to seek specific performance of the obligation to issue the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares. The
making of an order for specific performance is in the discretion of the court.
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USE OF PROCEEDS
The net proceeds from the issue of any Notes will be used by the Issuer for its general corporate
purposes.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE ISSUER
The ANZBGL Group, which consists of the Issuer and its subsidiaries (“ANZBGL Group”), is one of the
four major banking groups headquartered in Australia.
The Issuer is a public company incorporated and domiciled in Australia with debt securities listed on
certain securities exchanges, including the ASX. The Issuer’s registered office is located at Level 9, 833
Collins Street, Docklands, Victoria, 3008, Australia. Its Australian Business Number is ABN 11 005 357
522.
The ANZBGL Group provides a broad range of banking and financial products and services to retail,
small business, corporate and institutional customers. Geographically, operations span Australia, New
Zealand, a number of other countries in the Asia Pacific region, the United Kingdom, France, Germany
and the United States.
The ANZBGL Group is part of the ANZ Group. The ANZ Group comprises ANZGHL (as the ultimate
parent entity of the ANZ Group), the ANZ Bank Group (including the ANZBGL Group) and the ANZ
Non-Bank Group. ANZGHL is a non-operating holding company and is authorised as such for the
purposes of the Banking Act. ANZGHL is listed, and ANZGHL Ordinary Shares are quoted, on the ASX.
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares are also quoted on the New Zealand Stock Exchange.
The composition of the ANZ Group is set out in the diagram below.
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SUBSCRIPTION AND SALE
Subject to the terms and on the conditions contained in each relevant subscription agreement (each a
“Subscription Agreement”) entered into between the Issuer and the relevant Dealers, the Notes will
be offered from time to time by the Issuer to the Dealers. However, the Issuer has reserved the right
to sell Notes directly on its own behalf to other intermediaries and purchasers procured by it.
The Issuer will agree to indemnify the Dealer(s) against certain liabilities in connection with the offer
and sale of the Notes. Each Subscription Agreement will entitle the relevant Dealers to terminate any
agreement that they may make to subscribe for Notes in certain circumstances prior to payment for
such Notes being made to the Issuer. In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of the
relevant Subscription Agreement and the Information Memorandum or the Conditions, the provisions
of the relevant Subscription Agreement shall apply.
The Issuer may pay each relevant Dealer a commission as agreed between the Issuer and that Dealer
in respect of a Tranche of Notes, which commission may be deducted from the net proceeds payable
to the Issuer on the closing of that Series. The Issuer may agree to reimburse the relevant Dealers for
certain of their activities in connection with the issue of a Tranche of Notes.
Australia
No prospectus, product disclosure document or other disclosure document (as defined in the
Corporations Act) in relation to the Programme or any Notes has been or will be lodged with or
registered by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (“ASIC”). This Information
Memorandum is not a prospectus, product disclosure document or other disclosure document for the
purposes of the Corporations Act. No action has been taken which would permit an offering of the Notes
in circumstances that would require disclosure under Part 6D.2 or Chapter 7 of the Corporations Act.
Each Dealer appointed under the Programme will be deemed to represent and agree that in connection
with the distribution of the Notes, it has not:
(a) made or invited, and will not make or invite, an offer of the Notes for issue or sale in Australia
(including an offer or invitation which is received by a person in Australia); or
(b) distributed or published and will not distribute or publish any draft, preliminary or final form
information memorandum (including this Information Memorandum), advertisement or other
offering material relating to the Notes in Australia,
unless:
(i) the minimum aggregate consideration payable by each offeree is at least A$500,000
or its equivalent in an alternate currency (disregarding money lent by the offeror or its
associates (as described in Division 2 of Part 1.2 in Chapter 1 of the Corporations Act))
or the offer, distribution or publication otherwise does not require disclosure to
investors in accordance with Part 6D.2 (disregarding section 708(19)) or Chapter 7 of
the Corporations Act and is not made to a “retail client” as defined for the purposes of
section 761G of the Corporations Act; and
(ii) such action complies with all applicable laws, directives and regulations and does not
require any document to be lodged with, or registered by, ASIC.
Each Dealer appointed under the Programme will be deemed to represent and to agree, that it will not
sell any Notes in circumstances where employees of the Dealer aware of, or involved in, the sale know,
or have reasonable grounds to suspect, that the Note or an interest in or right in respect of the Note,
was being or would later be, acquired either directly or indirectly by an Offshore Associate of the Issuer
acting other than in the capacity of a dealer, manager or underwriter in relation to the placement of the
Notes or a clearing house, custodian, funds manager or responsible entity of a registered scheme within
the meaning of the Corporations Act.
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"Offshore Associate" means an associate (as defined in section 128F of the Income Tax Assessment
Act 1936 (Cth) of Australia and any successor legislation) of the Issuer that is either a non-resident of
the Commonwealth of Australia which does not acquire the Notes in carrying on a business at or through
a permanent establishment in Australia or, alternatively, a resident of Australia that acquires the Notes
in carrying on business at or through a permanent establishment outside of Australia.
Prohibition of Sales to EEA Retail Investors
This Information Memorandum is not a prospectus for the purposes of the Prospectus Regulation (EU)
2017/1129 (as amended, the “EU Prospectus Regulation”).
Each Dealer will be deemed to represent and agree that it has not offered, sold or otherwise made
available and will not offer, sell or otherwise make available any Notes which are the subject of any
offering contemplated by this Information Memorandum as completed by the Pricing Supplement in
relation thereto to any retail investor in the EEA. For the purposes of this provision, the expression
"retail investor" means a person who is one (or more) of the following:
(a) a retail client as defined in point (11) of Article 4(1) of MiFID II; or
(b) a customer within the meaning of the Insurance Distribution Directive, where that customer
would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10) of Article 4(1) of MiFID II.
United Kingdom
Prohibition of Sales to UK Retail Investors
This Information Memorandum is not a prospectus for the purposes of the EU Prospectus Regulation
as it forms part of domestic law in the UK by virtue of the EUWA (the “UK Prospectus Regulation”).
Each Dealer will be deemed to represent and agree that it has not offered, sold or otherwise made
available and will not offer, sell or otherwise make available any Notes which are the subject of any
offering contemplated by this Information Memorandum as completed by the Pricing Supplement in
relation thereto to any retail investor in the United Kingdom. For the purposes of this provision, the
expression "retail investor" means a person who is one (or more) of the following:
(a) a retail client as defined in point (8) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 2017/565 as it forms part
of domestic law in the UK by virtue of the EUWA;
(b) a customer within the meaning of the provisions of the FSMA and any rules or regulations made
under the FSMA to implement Directive (EU) 2016/97, where that customer would not qualify
as a professional client, as defined in point (8) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014
as it forms part of domestic law in the UK by virtue of the EUWA.
Other Regulatory Restrictions in the United Kingdom
Each Dealer will also be deemed to further represent that:
(a) it has only communicated or caused to be communicated and will only communicate or cause
to be communicated an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the
meaning of section 21 of the FSMA) received by it in connection with the issue or sale of any
Notes in circumstances in which section 21(1) of the FSMA would not, if the Issuer was not an
authorised person, apply to the Issuer;
(b) it has complied and will comply with all applicable provisions of the FSMA with respect to
anything done by it in relation to any Notes in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom.
Hong Kong
Each Dealer will be deemed to represent and agree that:
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(a) it has not offered or sold and will not offer or sell in the Hong Kong Special Administrative
Region of the People's Republic of China (“Hong Kong”), by means of any document, any
Notes (except for Notes which are a "structured product" as defined in the Securities and
Futures Ordinance (Cap.571) of Hong Kong (the “SFO”)) other than:
(i) to "professional investors" as defined in the SFO and any rules made under the SFO;
or
(ii) in other circumstances which do not result in the document being a "prospectus" as
defined in the Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance
(Cap. 32) of Hong Kong (the “Companies Ordinance”) or which do not constitute an
offer to the public within the meaning of the Companies Ordinance; and
(b) it has not issued or had in its possession for the purposes of issue, and will not issue or have
in its possession for the purposes of issue, whether in Hong Kong or elsewhere, any
advertisement, invitation or document relating to the Notes, which is directed at, or the contents
of which are likely to be accessed or read by, the public of Hong Kong (except if permitted to
do so under the securities laws of Hong Kong) other than with respect to Notes which are or
are intended to be disposed of only to persons outside Hong Kong or only to "professional
investors" as defined in the SFO and any rules made under the SFO.
Japan
The Notes have not been and will not be registered under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act
of Japan (Act No. 25 of 1948, as amended, the "FIEA") on the ground that the solicitation for
subscription of the notes falls within the definition of “solicitation to qualified institutional investors” as
defined in Article 2, paragraph 3, item 2 (I) of the FIEA. Such solicitation shall be subject to the condition
that qualified institutional investors (as defined under the FIEA, “QIIs”) who desire to acquire the Notes
shall be made aware that they shall not transfer the Notes to anyone other than other QIIs and,
accordingly, each Dealer will be deemed to represent and undertake that it will not offer or sell any
Notes, directly or indirectly, in Japan or to, or for the account or benefit of, any Japanese Person or, for
the account or benefit of, others for re-offering or resale, directly or indirectly, in Japan or to any
Japanese Person except pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of, and otherwise
in compliance with, the FIEA and all applicable laws, regulations and guidelines promulgated by the
relevant Japanese governmental and regulatory authorities and in effect at the relevant time. For the
purposes of this paragraph, "Japanese Person" shall mean any person resident in Japan, including any
corporation or other entity organised under the laws of Japan.
New Zealand
No action has been or will be taken by the Issuer or any Dealer which would permit a public or regulated
offering of any of the Notes, or possession or distribution of any offering material in relation to the Notes,
in New Zealand.
Each Dealer will be deemed to represent and agree that it has not offered, sold or delivered and will not
directly or indirectly offer, sell or deliver any Notes, and it will not distribute any offering memorandum
or advertisement in relation to any offer of Notes, in New Zealand, other than to any or all of the following
persons only:
1. "wholesale investors" as that term is defined in clauses 3(2)(a), (c) and (d) of Schedule 1 to the
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 of New Zealand ("FMC Act"), being a person who is:
(a) an "investment business";
(b) "large"; or
(c) a "government agency",
in each case as defined in Schedule 1 to the FMC Act; and
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2. in other circumstances where there is no contravention of the FMC Act, provided that (without
limiting paragraph (1) above) Notes may not be offered or transferred to any "eligible investors"
(as defined in the FMC Act) or any person that meets the investment activity criteria specified
in clause 38 of Schedule 1 to the FMC Act.
In addition, each Dealer will be deemed to represent and agree that it has not offered or sold, and will
not offer or sell, any Notes to persons whom it believes to be persons to whom any amounts payable
on the Notes are or would be subject to New Zealand resident withholding tax unless such persons
certify that they have “RWT-exempt status” (as defined in the Income Tax Act 2007 (NZ)) in respect of,
New Zealand resident withholding tax, and provide a New Zealand tax file number to such Dealer (in
which event the Dealer shall provide details thereof to the Issuer).
Singapore
Each dealer is deemed to acknowledge that this Information Memorandum has not been registered as
a prospectus under the Securities and Futures Act 2001 (“SFA”) with the Monetary Authority of
Singapore. Accordingly, each Dealer is deemed to represent, warrant and agree that it has not offered
or sold any Notes or caused the Notes to be made the subject of an invitation for subscription or
purchase and will not offer or sell any Notes or cause the Notes to be made the subject of an invitation
for subscription or purchase, and has not circulated or distributed, nor will it circulate or distribute, this
Information Memorandum or any other document or material in connection with the offer or sale, or
invitation for subscription or purchase, of the Notes, whether directly or indirectly, to any person in
Singapore other than (i) to an institutional investor (as defined in Section 4A of the SFA) pursuant to
Section 274 of the SFA or (ii) to an accredited investor (as defined in Section 4A of the SFA) pursuant
to and in accordance with the conditions specified in Section 275 of the SFA.
South Korea
The Notes have not been and will not be registered with the Financial Services Commission of Korea
for a public offering in Korea under the Financial Investment Services and Capital Markets Act of Korea.
Each Dealer will be deemed to represent and agree that the Notes have not been and will not be offered,
sold or delivered, directly or indirectly, in Korea or to, or for the account or benefit of, any resident of
Korea (as defined in the Foreign Exchange Transactions Law of Korea and its Enforcement Decree),
or to any other person for reoffering, resale or re-delivery, directly or indirectly, in Korea or to, or for the
account or benefit of, any resident of Korea, except as otherwise permitted by applicable Korean laws
and regulations. Furthermore, the Notes may not be sold or resold to Korean residents unless the
purchaser of the Notes complies with all applicable regulatory requirements (including but not limited to
government reporting requirements under the Foreign Exchange Transactions Law of Korea and its
Enforcement Decree) in connection with the purchase of the Notes.
Taiwan
The Notes may be made available for purchase from outside Taiwan by investors residing in Taiwan
either directly or through a duly licensed Taiwan intermediary, but may not be offered or sold in Taiwan.
Any subscriptions of Notes shall only become effective upon acceptance by the Issuer or the relevant
Dealer outside Taiwan and shall be deemed a contract entered into in the jurisdiction of incorporation
of the Issuer or relevant Dealer, as the case may be.
United States
The Notes have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Securities Act") or with any securities regulatory authority of any state or other
jurisdiction of the United States and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to, or for the
account or benefit of, U.S. persons, except pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements
of the Securities Act. Terms used in this paragraph have the meanings given to them by Regulation S
under the Securities Act. Each Dealer appointed under the Programme will be required to represent
and agree, that it has not offered or sold, and will not offer or sell, Notes (a) (i) as part of its distribution
at any time or (ii) otherwise until 40 days after the later of the commencement of the offering of the
Notes comprising the relevant Tranche and the completion of the distribution of the Notes comprising
the relevant Tranche, as determined and certified to the Issuer by such Dealer (or, in the case of a sale
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of a Tranche of Notes to or through more than one Dealer, by each of such Dealers as to the Notes of
such Tranche purchased by or through it, in which case the Issuer shall notify each such Dealer when
all such Dealers have so certified) and (b) within the United States or to, or for the account or benefit
of, U.S. persons except in accordance with Rule 903 of Regulation S under the Securities Act.
Accordingly, each Dealer appointed under the Programme will be required to represent and agree, that
none of it, its affiliates or any persons acting on its or their behalf have engaged or will engage in any
directed selling efforts (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act) with respect to the Notes,
and that it and they have complied and will comply with any applicable offering restrictions requirement
of Regulation S under the Securities Act. Each Dealer appointed under the Programme will be required
to agree that, at or prior to the confirmation of any sale of Notes, it will have sent to each distributor,
dealer or person receiving a selling concession, fee or other remuneration that purchases Notes from
it or through it during the distribution compliance period (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities
Act) a confirmation or notice to substantially the following effect:
"The Notes covered hereby have not been, and will not be, registered under the United States Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") or with any securities regulatory authority of any state or
other jurisdiction of the United States and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to, or for
the account or benefit of, U.S. persons (i) as part of their distribution at any time or (ii) otherwise until 40
days after the later of the commencement of the offering of the Notes comprising the relevant Tranche
and the completion of the distribution of the Notes comprising the relevant Tranche, as determined and
certified by [Name of Dealer or Dealers, as the case may be], except, in either case, in accordance with
Rule 903 of Regulation S under the Securities Act. Terms used above have the meaning given to them
by Regulation S under the Securities Act."
Each Dealer appointed under the Programme will be required to agree to notify the Issuer when it has
completed its distribution of the Notes of any Tranche. In addition, until 40 days after the later of the
commencement of the offering of the Notes comprising the relevant Tranche and the completion of the
distribution of the Notes comprising the relevant Tranche, any offer or sale of Notes within the United
States by a Dealer (whether or not participating in the offering) may violate the registration requirements
of the Securities Act.
Each issuance of index-, commodity- or currency-linked Notes may be subject to such additional U.S.
selling restrictions as the relevant Dealer may agree with the Issuer as a term of the issuance, and
purchase or, as the case may be, subscription of such Notes. Each Dealer appointed under the
Programme will be required agree, that it shall offer, sell and deliver such Notes only in compliance with
such additional U.S. selling restrictions.
General
These selling restrictions may be modified by the agreement of the Issuer and the Dealers including
following a change in a relevant law, regulation or directive. Any such modification will be set out in the
Pricing Supplement issued in respect of the issue of Notes to which it relates or in a supplement to this
Information Memorandum.
No action has been taken in any country or jurisdiction by the Issuer that would permit a public offering
of any of the Notes, or possession or distribution of this Information Memorandum or any other offering
material or any Pricing Supplement in relation thereto, in any country or jurisdiction where action for
that purpose is required.
Each Dealer appointed under the Programme will be required to agree, that it will (to the best of its
knowledge and belief) comply with all applicable securities laws and regulations in each jurisdiction in
which it purchases, offers, sells or delivers Notes or has in its possession or distributes the Information
Memorandum, any other offering material or any Pricing Supplement, in all cases at its own expense
and will obtain any consent, approval or permission required by it for the purchase, offer, sale or delivery
by it of Notes under the laws and regulations in force in any jurisdiction to which it is subject or in which
it makes such purchases, offers, sales or deliveries and none of the Issuer nor any of the other Dealers
shall have any responsibility therefor.
Persons into whose hands this Information Memorandum or any Pricing Supplement comes are
required by the Issuer and the relevant Dealers in respect of any Series of Notes to comply with all
applicable laws and regulations in each country or jurisdiction in or from which they purchase, offer, sell
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or deliver Notes or have in their possession or distribute such offering material, in all cases at their own
expense.
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The form of Pricing Supplement that will be issued in respect of each Tranche of Notes, subject only to
the possible deletion of non-applicable provisions, is set out below:
PRICING SUPPLEMENT
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED
(Australian Business Number 11 005 357 522)
(Incorporated with limited liability in Australia)
Australian Dollar
Debt Issuance Programme
Series No: [ ]
Tranche No: [ ]
[Brief Description and Aggregate Principal Amount of the Medium Term Notes/Subordinated
Notes]
Issue Price: [ ] per cent.
[Name(s) of Dealers(s)]
The date of this Pricing Supplement is [ ]
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Notification under Section 309B(1) of the Securities and Futures Act 2001 of Singapore (the "SFA"):
In connection with Section 309B of the SFA and the Securities and Futures (Capital Markets Products)
Regulations 2018 of Singapore (“CMP Regulations 2018”), unless otherwise specified in the Pricing
Supplement, the Issuer has determined and hereby notifies all relevant persons (as defined in
Section 309A(1) of the SFA) that the Notes issued or to be issued under this Programme shall be
prescribed capital markets products (as defined in the CMP Regulations 2018) and Excluded Investment
Products (as defined in the Monetary Authority of Singapore (the "MAS") Notice SFA 04-N12: Notice on
the Sale of Investment Products and MAS Notice FAA-N16: Notice on Recommendations on Investment
Products).
This document constitutes the Pricing Supplement relating to the issue of the Notes described herein.
Terms used herein shall be deemed to be defined as such for the purposes of the Conditions set forth in
the Information Memorandum dated 17 September 2025. This Pricing Supplement contains the final terms
of the Notes and must be read in conjunction with the Information Memorandum, as supplemented as at
the Issue Date.
The following alternative language applies if the first Tranche of an issue of Notes which is being increased
was issued under an Information Memorandum with an earlier date.
[Terms used herein shall be deemed to be defined as such for the purposes of the Conditions (the
"Conditions") set forth in the Information Memorandum dated 17 September 2025. This Pricing
Supplement contains the final terms of the Notes and must be read in conjunction with the Information
Memorandum dated 17 September 2025 [and the supplemental Information Memorandum dated [ ]] (the
“Information Memorandum”), save in respect of the Conditions which are extracted from the Information
Memorandum dated [original date] and are attached hereto.]
Include whichever of the following apply or specify items as "Not Applicable" or “N/A”. Note that the
numbering should remain as set out below, even if "Not Applicable" is indicated for individual paragraphs
or sub-paragraphs. Italics denote directions for completing the Pricing Supplement.
1 Issuer: Australia and New Zealand Banking Group
Limited
2 (i) Series Number: [ ]
(ii) Tranche Number: [ ]
(if fungible with an existing Series, include
details of that Series, including the date on
which the Notes become fungible)
3 Specified Currency: Australian Dollars
4 Aggregate Principal Amount:
(i) Tranche: [ ]
(ii) Series: [ ]
5 (i) Issue Price: [ ] per cent. of the Aggregate Principal
Amount [plus accrued interest from [insert
date] (in the case of fungible Notes only, if
applicable)]
(ii) Net proceeds: [ ]
6 Specified Denomination(s) (and
Principal Amount):
[ ] [[[in each case] as it may be adjusted
in accordance with Condition 7.4] [include for
Subordinated Notes only]]
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7 (i) Issue Date: [ ]
(ii) Interest Commencement Date: [Issue Date/Other (specify)]
8 Maturity Date: [ ] [specify date or (for Floating Rate
Notes) Interest Payment Date falling on or
nearest to the relevant date]
9 Interest Basis: [[ ] per cent. Fixed Rate]
[[specify reference rate] +/- • per cent.
Floating Rate]
[Zero Coupon] [Not applicable for
Subordinated Notes]
[Index Linked Interest] [Not applicable for
Subordinated Notes]
[Other (specify)]
(Further particulars specified below)
10 Redemption/Payment Basis: [Redemption at Par]
[Index Linked Redemption] [Not applicable for
Subordinated Notes]
[Dual Currency] [Not applicable for
Subordinated Notes]
[Instalment] [Not applicable for Subordinated
Notes]
[Other (specify)]
11 Change of Interest or
Redemption/Payment Basis:
[Not Applicable/ [ ] (Specify details of
any provision for convertibility of Notes into
another interest or redemption/payment
basis)] [(Further particulars specified below)]
12 Put/Call Options: [Not Applicable]
[Put Option] [Not applicable for Subordinated
Notes]
[Call Option]
[(Further particulars specified below)]
13 Status of the Notes: [Medium Term Notes ][Subordinated Notes]
14 Listing: [Australian Securities
Exchange/(specify)/None]
15 Method of distribution: [Syndicated/Non-syndicated]
PROVISIONS RELATING TO INTEREST (IF ANY) PAYABLE
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16 Fixed Rate Note Provisions: [Applicable/Not Applicable] (If not applicable,
delete the remaining sub-paragraphs of this
paragraph)
(i) Rate[(s)] of Interest: [ ] per cent. Per annum [payable
[annually/semi-annually/quarterly/monthly] in
arrear]
(ii) Interest Payment Date(s): [ ] in each year [commencing on [ ] up
to and including the Maturity Date]
(iii) Fixed Coupon Amount[(s)]: [[ ] per [ ] in Specified
Denomination/Not Applicable]
(iv) Broken Amount(s): [Not Applicable/ [ ] (Insert particulars of
any initial or final broken interest amounts
which do not correspond with the Fixed
Coupon Amount[(s)] and the Interest Payment
Date for which it is payable)]
(v) Business Day Convention: [Floating Rate Business Day
Convention/Following Business Day
Convention/Modified Following Business Day
Convention/Preceding Business Day
Convention/other (give details)]
(vi) Day Count Fraction: [Actual/Actual (ICMA)] [30/360] [RBA Bond
Basis] [Other (specify)]
(vii) Other terms relating to the method of
calculating interest for Fixed Rate
Notes:
[Not Applicable/[ ] (give details)]
17 Floating Rate Note Provisions: [Applicable/Not Applicable] (If not applicable,
delete the remaining sub-paragraphs of this
paragraph)
(i) (a) Interest Period(s):
[[ ](Specify either a period or periods or
a specific date or dates)/Not Applicable (if no
different to Condition 1.1)]
(b) Interest Payment Dates: [[ ]/Not Applicable]
(c) Interest Period Date if not an
Interest Payment Date:
[[ ]/Not Applicable]
(ii) Business Day Convention: [Floating Rate Business Day
Convention/Following Business Day
Convention/Modified Following Business Day
Convention/Preceding Business Day
Convention/other (give details)]
(iii) Manner in which the Rate(s) of
Interest is/are to be determined:
[Screen Rate Determination/BBSW Rate
Determination/AONIA Rate
Determination/other (give details)]
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(iv) Calculation Agent responsible for
calculating the Rate(s) of Interest
and Interest Amount(s):
[ ]
(v) Screen Rate Determination: [Applicable/Not Applicable]
- Reference Rate: [ ]
- Interest Determination Date(s): [ ]
- Relevant Screen Page: [ ]
- Relevant Time: [ ]
- Relevant Financial Centre: [ ]
- Reference Banks: [Applicable/Not Applicable] (If applicable,
specify the Reference Banks as follows)
[ ]
(vi) Margin(s): [+/-] [ ] per cent. per annum
(vii) Minimum Rate of Interest: [[ ] per cent. per annum/Not Applicable]
[Not applicable for Subordinated Notes]
(viii) Maximum Rate of Interest: [[ ] per cent. per annum/Not Applicable]
[Not applicable for Subordinated Notes]
(ix) Rate Multiplier [[ ]/Not Applicable] [Not applicable for
Subordinated Notes]
(x) Day Count Fraction: [Actual/360][Actual/365][Actual/365
(fixed)][other (specify)]
(xi) Fall back provisions, rounding
provisions, denominator and any
other terms relating to the method of
calculating interest on Floating Rate
Notes, if different from those set out
in the Conditions:
[(specify) (Also, review and confirm additional
defined terms in Condition 4 (Interest and
Other Calculations): Interest Accrual Period
etc)]
18 Zero Coupon Note Provisions: [Applicable/Not Applicable] (If not applicable,
delete the remaining sub-paragraphs of this
paragraph) [Not applicable for Subordinated
Notes]
(i) Amortisation Yield: [[ ] per cent. per annum/Not applicable]
(ii) Day Count Fraction: [ ]
(iii) [Any other relevant provisions and/or
other formula/basis for determining
the amount payable or the Amortised
Face Amount (if other than as
specified in Condition 5.9):]
[ ]
19 Linear interpolation: [Not Applicable/Applicable – the Rate of
Interest for the [long]/[short] [first/last] Interest
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Period shall be calculated using Linear
Interpolation]
20 Index Linked Interest Note Provisions: [Applicable/Not Applicable] (If not applicable,
delete the remaining sub-paragraphs of this
paragraph) [Not applicable for Subordinated
Notes]
(i) Index/Formula: [give or annex details]
(ii) Calculation Agent responsible for
calculating the Rate(s) of interest:
[ ]
(iii) Provisions for determining the Rate
of Interest where calculation by
reference to Index and/or Formula:
[ ]
(iv) Interest Determination Date(s): [ ]
(v) Provisions for determining the Rate
of Interest where calculation by
reference to Index and/or Formula is
impossible or impracticable or
otherwise disrupted:
[ ]
(vi) (a) Interest Period(s): [[ ] (Specify either a period or periods or
a specific date or dates)/Not Applicable (if no
different to Condition 1.1)]
(b) Interest Payment Dates: [[ ]/Not Applicable]
(c) Interest Period Date if not an
Interest Payment Date:
[[ ]/Not Applicable]
(vii) Business Day Convention: [Floating Rate Business Day
Convention/Following Business Day
Convention/Modified Following Business Day
Convention/Preceding Business Day
Convention/other (give details)]
(viii) Minimum Rate of Interest: [[ ] per cent. per annum/Not Applicable]
(ix) Maximum Rate of Interest: [[ ] per cent. per annum/Not Applicable]
(x) Day Count Fraction: [ ]
(xi) [Margin/Rate Multiplier]: [+/-] [ ] per cent. per annum
PROVISIONS RELATING TO REDEMPTION
21 Call Option: [Applicable/Not Applicable] (If not applicable,
delete the remaining sub-paragraphs of this
paragraph)
[[Any early redemption will be subject to the
prior written approval of APRA. Holders should
not expect that APRA’s approval will be given
for any redemption of Subordinated Notes.]
[include for Subordinated Notes only]]
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(i) Option Exercise Date(s) (if other
than as set out in the Conditions):
[ ]
(ii) Optional Redemption Date(s): [ ]
[[The Optional Redemption Date must not be
earlier than 5 years from the Issue Date.]
[include for Subordinated Notes only]]
(iii) Optional Redemption Amount(s) and
method, if any, of calculation of such
amount(s):
[[ ] per Note of [ ] Specified
Denomination/Redemption at Par/Other
(specify)] [[, as it may be adjusted in
accordance with Condition 7.4] [include for
Subordinated Notes only]]
(iv) If redeemable in part: [[ ]/Not Applicable]
(a) Minimum Redemption Amount: [[ ]/Not Applicable] [Not applicable for
Subordinated Notes]
(b) Maximum Redemption Amount: [[ ]/Not Applicable] [Not applicable for
Subordinated Notes]
(v) Clean-Up Call [Applicable/Not Applicable] [Not applicable for
Subordinated Notes]
22 Put Option: [Applicable/Not Applicable] (If not applicable,
delete the remaining sub-paragraphs of this
paragraph) [Not applicable for Subordinated
Notes]
(i) Option Exercise Date(s) (if other than
as set out in the Conditions):
[ ]
(ii) Optional Redemption Date(s): [ ]
(iii) Optional Redemption Amount(s) and
method, if any, of calculation of such
amount(s):
[[ ] per Note of [ ] Specified
Denomination/Redemption at Par/Other
(specify)]
23 Final Redemption Amount: [[ ] per Note of [ ] Specified
Denomination/Par/other/Index Linked
Redemption/ See Appendix for method of
calculation (Specify)] [[, as it may be adjusted
in accordance with Condition 7.4] [include for
Subordinated Notes only]]
24 Early Redemption Amount: [[ ] per Note of [ ] Specified
Denomination/Par/other/Index Linked
Redemption/ See Appendix for method of
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Early Redemption Amount(s) payable on
redemption for taxation reasons, or a
Regulatory Event (if applicable, for
Subordinated Notes only) or on Event of
Default and/or the method of calculating the
same (if required or if different from that set
out in the Conditions).
calculation (Specify)] [[, as it may be adjusted
in accordance with Condition 7.4] [include for
Subordinated Notes only]]
25 Redemption for Regulatory Event
(Subordinated Notes only):
[Applicable/Not Applicable] (If not applicable,
delete the remaining sub-paragraphs of this
paragraph)
Any early redemption will be subject to the
prior written approval of APRA.
26 Redemption for taxation reasons: Any early redemption will be subject to the
prior written approval of APRA.
Condition 6.2(a): Applicable (Note that Condition 6.2(a)
applies automatically).
Condition 6.2(b) (Subordinated Notes only): [Applicable/Not Applicable]
Condition 6.2(c) (Subordinated Notes only): [Applicable/Not Applicable]
PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO SUBORDINATED NOTES
27 Subordinated Notes: [Applicable/Not Applicable](If not
applicable then also specify “Not
Applicable” to paragraphs 28 and 29)
28 Write-Off [Applicable/Not Applicable]
(If not applicable, complete paragraph 29)
(Where “Not Applicable” is specified at this
paragraph 28, this is without prejudice to
the application of Condition 8.5 where
“Applicable” is specified at paragraph 29)
29 Conversion: [Applicable/Not Applicable]
(i) CD: [ ]
(ii) VWAP Period: [ ]
30 Alternative Conversion Number: [Applicable/Not Applicable] [If Applicable, the
Alternative Conversion Number is [specify
number e.g.: 2]]
GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO THE SECURITIES
31 Form of Notes: Registered
32 Record Date: [1 day/ 7 days/ 8 days / Other (specify
number of days)]
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33 Additional Financial Centre(s) (for the
purposes of the “Business Day”
definition) or other special provisions
relating to Interest Payment Dates:
[Not Applicable/give details.]
34 Public Offer Test compliant: [Yes/No/Not Applicable]
35 Details relating to Instalment Notes,
including Instalment Amount(s) and
Instalment Date(s):
[Not Applicable/give details]
36 Consolidation provisions: [Not Applicable/The provisions annexed to
this Pricing Supplement apply]
37 Governing law: State of Victoria and Commonwealth of
Australia
38 Other terms or special conditions: [Not Applicable/give details]
DISTRIBUTION
39 If syndicated, names of Lead
Managers and the Dealers:
[Not Applicable/give names]
40 If non-syndicated, name of Dealer: [Not Applicable/give names]
41 Additional selling restrictions: [Not Applicable/give details]
OPERATIONAL INFORMATION
42 ISIN: [Not Applicable/insert number]
43 Common Code: [Not Applicable/insert number]
44 Any clearing system(s) other than
Austraclear and the relevant
identification number(s):
[Not Applicable/give name(s) and number(s)]
[LISTING APPLICATION
This Pricing Supplement comprises the details required to list the Notes described herein pursuant to the
Australian Dollar Debt Issuance programme as from [insert date of listing of the Notes]]
[RATINGS
The Notes to be issued [have been]/[have not been]/[are expected to be] rated:
[Standard & Poor's (Australia) Pty Ltd: [ ]]
[Moody's Investors Service Pty, Limited: [ ]]
[Fitch Australia Pty Ltd: [ ]
[[Other]: [ ]]
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(The above disclosure should reflect the rating allocated to Notes of the type being issued under the
Programme generally or, where the issue has been specifically rated, that rating)
A rating is not a recommendation by any rating organisation to buy, sell or hold Notes and may be subject
to revision or withdrawal at any time by the assigning rating organisation.]
RESPONSIBILITY
The Issuer accepts responsibility for the information contained in this Pricing Supplement.
Signed on behalf of the Issuer:
By: ....................................................
[Duly Authorised Signatory/Attorney]
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DIRECTORY
ISSUER
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited
Level 9, 833 Collins Street
Docklands
Victoria 3008
Attention: Group Treasury - Head of Group Funding
Telephone: (03) 8655 5683
Email: funding@anz.com
REGISTRAR
Austraclear Services Limited
20 Bridge Street
Sydney
NSW 2000
Attention: Senior Manager, Settlement Operations
Telephone: (02) 8298 8476
ARRANGER and DEALER
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited
Level 5, ANZ Tower
242 Pitt Street
Sydney
New South Wales 2000
Attention: Head of Syndicate, Australia
Telephone: (02) 8037 0200
Email: anzsdesk@anz.com
DATED 17 September 2025
AMENDED AND RESTATED DEED POLL
by
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
BANKING GROUP LIMITED
Australian Business Number 11 005 357 522
(Incorporated with limited liability in Australia)
AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR
DEBT ISSUANCE PROGRAMME
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AMENDED AND RESTATED DEED POLL
THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED DEED POLL is made on 17 September 2025 by
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED A.B.N. 11 005 357
522 (the Issuer) in favour of Holders from time to time.
RECITALS
A. The Issuer wishes to amend and restate the deed poll originally made on 20 June 2001
and amended and restated on 11 April 2003, 23 April 2004, 26 February 2007, 28
November 2008, 10 August 2010, 14 February 2012, 8 April 2014, 3 August 2015, 21
February 2017, 15 October 2018, 11 March 2021, 7 December 2022 and 9 August 2023
(the Original Deed Poll).
B. Under an Information Memorandum dated on or about 17 September 2025 (the
Information Memorandum) relating to the Australian Dollar Debt Issuance Programme
(the Programme), the Issuer proposes to issue Notes from time to time.
C. The Issuer agrees to enter into this Deed in order to enable the Holders from time to time
of such Notes to obtain the benefit of the terms on which those Notes are issued as set
out in the Conditions of the Notes and the relevant Pricing Supplement.
NOW THIS DEED WITNESSES as follows:
1. INTERPRETATION
1.1 Conditions means the Conditions of the Notes contained in Schedule 1 to this Deed.
1.2 Meeting Provisions means the provisions contained in Schedule 2 to this Deed.
1.3 Previous Deed Poll means any of the following deeds poll of the Issuer:
(a) the Deed Poll dated 20 June 2001;
(b) the Deed Poll dated 20 June 2001 as amended and restated on 11 April 2003;
(c) the Deed Poll dated 20 June 2001 as amended and restated on 11 April 2003
and 23 April 2004;
(d) the Deed Poll dated 20 June 2001 as amended and restated on 11 April 2003,
23 April 2004 and 26 February 2007;
(e) the Deed Poll dated 20 June 2001 as amended and restated on 11 April 2003,
23 April 2004, 26 February 2007 and 28 November 2008;
(f) the Deed Poll dated 20 June 2001 as amended and restated on 11 April 2003,
23 April 2004, 26 February 2007, 28 November 2008 and 10 August 2010;
(g) the Deed Poll dated 20 June 2001 as amended and restated on 11 April 2003,
23 April 2004, 26 February 2007, 28 November 2008, 10 August 2010 and 14
February 2012;
(h) the Deed Poll dated 20 June 2001 as amended and restated on 11 April 2003,
23 April 2004, 26 February 2007, 28 November 2008, 10 August 2010,
14 February 2012 and 8 April 2014;
(i) the Deed Poll dated 20 June 2001 as amended and restated on 11 April 2003,
23 April 2004, 26 February 2007, 28 November 2008, 10 August 2010,
14 February 2012, 8 April 2014 and 21 February 2017;
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(j) the Deed Poll dated 20 June 2001 as amended and restated on 11 April 2003,
23 April 2004, 26 February 2007, 28 November 2008, 10 August 2010, 14
February 2012, 8 April 2014, 21 February 2017 and 15 October 2018;
(k) the Deed Poll dated 20 June 2001 as amended and restated on 11 April 2003,
23 April 2004, 26 February 2007, 28 November 2008, 10 August 2010, 14
February 2012, 8 April 2014, 21 February 2017, 15 October 2018 and 11
March 2021;
(l) the Deed Poll dated 20 June 2001 as amended and restated on 11 April 2003,
23 April 2004, 26 February 2007, 28 November 2008, 10 August 2010, 14
February 2012, 8 April 2014, 21 February 2017, 15 October 2018, 11 March
2021 and 7 December 2022; and
(m) the Original Deed Poll.
1.4 Note Terms means, in relation to any Note, the Conditions as amended by the relevant
Pricing Supplement for any Tranche of Notes.
1.5 Unless the context otherwise requires, terms defined in the Note Terms have the same
meanings in this Deed.
1.6 Condition 1.2 (except (a)) of the Conditions applies to this Deed as if incorporated in this
Deed and as if all references to “these Conditions” are references to “this Deed”.
2. HOLDERS TO HAVE BENEFIT OF THE NOTE TERMS
2.1 The obligations of the Issuer under the Notes are constituted by and specified in this
Deed.
2.2 Subject to the Note Terms, the Issuer unconditionally and irrevocably agrees for the
benefit of each Holder that such Holder shall, until it has disposed of all Notes held by
it, be entitled to the benefit of the terms contained in the Note Terms in respect of the
Notes held by it.
2.3 Each Holder who acquires any Notes in accordance with the Note Terms otherwise than
by issue or acceptance (as applicable) by the Issuer shall acquire all rights and benefits
to which that Holder would have been entitled under the Note Terms with respect to that
Note as if that Holder had held that Note from its Issue Date.
2.4 Each Holder and any person claiming through or under a Holder is bound by this Deed
and is deemed to have notice of this Deed (including the Meeting Provisions), the
Conditions, the Information Memorandum, the relevant Pricing Supplement and the
Registry Services Agreement.
2.5 This Deed amends and restates the Original Deed Poll and applies to the exclusion of the
Original Deed Poll in respect of all Notes issued after the date of this Deed, except in
relation to any Notes issued on terms that they may be consolidated to form a single
Series with any outstanding Notes issued under a Previous Deed Poll, which Notes have
the benefit of such Previous Deed Poll.
3. DEED DEPOSITED WITH REGISTRAR
3.1 This Deed shall be delivered to and held by the Registrar while any Note remains
outstanding and for so long after as any claim made against the Issuer by any Holder in
relation to the Notes, the Note Terms or this Deed shall not have been finally adjudicated,
settled or discharged.
3.2 Each Holder is taken to have irrevocably instructed the Issuer that this Deed is to be held
by the Registrar and appointed and authorised the Registrar to hold this Deed at its office
in Melbourne on its behalf.
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4. ILLEGALITY
The illegality, invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this Deed under the law
of any jurisdiction shall not affect its legality, validity or enforceability under the law of
any other jurisdiction nor the legality, validity or enforceability of any other provision of
this Deed.
5. GOVERNING LAW
This Deed is governed by the laws of Victoria and the Commonwealth of Australia.
6. ATTORNEYS
Each attorney executing this Deed states that he or she has no notice of revocation of his
or her power of attorney.
EXECUTED as a DEED
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SCHEDULE 1
CONDITIONS OF THE NOTES
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CONDITIONS OF THE NOTES
The following is the text of the terms and conditions that, subject to completion and amendment and as
supplemented or varied in accordance with the provisions of the relevant Pricing Supplement, shall be
applicable to the Notes of each Series.
Words and expressions defined in the Deed Poll or used in the Pricing Supplement shall have the same
meanings where used in these Conditions unless the context otherwise requires or unless otherwise
stated and provided that, in the event of inconsistency between the Deed Poll and the Pricing
Supplement, the Pricing Supplement will prevail.
The Notes are constituted by a deed poll dated 20 June 2001 as last amended and restated on 17
September 2025 and as further amended and/or supplemented and/or restated as at the Issue Date of
the Notes (the “Deed Poll”) executed by Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (the
“Issuer”) and issued with the benefit of the Registry Services Agreement. Copies of the Registry
Services Agreement, the Deed Poll and the relevant Pricing Supplement are available to the relevant
Holders for inspection at the registered offices of the Issuer and Registrar which are, as at the date
hereof:
Issuer: Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, Level 9, 833 Collins Street,
Docklands, Victoria, 3008, Australia.
Registrar: Austraclear Services Limited, 20 Bridge Street, Sydney, NSW 2000.
The Holders of the Notes and any person claiming through or under a Holder are entitled to the benefit
of, are bound by and are deemed to have notice of all of the provisions contained in the Deed Poll
(including the relevant Pricing Supplement), the Information Memorandum dated 17 September 2025
(including all documents incorporated by reference) and the Registry Services Agreement.
1 Definitions and Interpretation
1.1 Definitions
In these Conditions, unless the context otherwise requires, the following defined terms shall
have the meanings set out below:
Adjustment Spread means the adjustment spread as at the Adjustment Spread Fixing Date
(which may be a positive or negative value or zero and determined pursuant to a formula or
methodology) that is:
(a) determined as the median of the historical differences between the BBSW Rate and
AONIA over a five calendar year period prior to the Adjustment Spread Fixing Date
using practices based on those used for the determination of the Bloomberg
Adjustment Spread as at 1 December 2022, provided that for so long as the
Bloomberg Adjustment Spread is published and determined based on the five year
median of the historical differences between the BBSW Rate and AONIA, that
adjustment spread will be deemed to be acceptable for the purposes of this
paragraph (a); or
(b) if no such median can be determined in accordance with paragraph (a), set using the
method for calculating or determining such adjustment spread determined by the
Calculation Agent (after consultation with the Issuer where practicable) to be
appropriate.
Adjustment Spread Fixing Date means the first date on which a Permanent Discontinuation
Trigger occurs with respect to the BBSW Rate.
Administrator means:
(a) in respect of the BBSW Rate, ASX Benchmarks Pty Limited (ABN 38 616 075 417);
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(b) in respect of AONIA (or where AONIA is used to determine an Applicable Benchmark
Rate), the Reserve Bank of Australia; and
(c) in respect of any other Applicable Benchmark Rate, the administrator for that rate or
benchmark or, if there is no administrator, the provider of that rate or benchmark,
and, in each case, any successor administrator or, as applicable, any successor administrator
or provider.
Administrator Recommended Rate means the rate formally recommended for use as the
temporary replacement for the BBSW Rate by the Administrator of the BBSW Rate.
Aggregate Principal Amount means, in relation to a Tranche of Notes, the amount specified
in the Pricing Supplement or in relation to any Certificate the aggregate Principal Amount of
the Notes to which that Certificate relates.
Alternative Conversion Number means the number which may be specified in the Pricing
Supplement.
Amortisation Yield has the meaning given in Condition 6.4(b) unless otherwise specified in
the Pricing Supplement.
Amortised Face Amount has the meaning given to it in Condition 6.4(b) unless otherwise
specified in the Pricing Supplement.
ANZ Group means ANZGHL and its subsidiaries.
ANZBGL Ordinary Share means a fully paid ordinary share in the capital of the Issuer.
ANZGHL means ANZ Group Holdings Limited (ACN 659 510 791).
ANZGHL Ordinary Share mean a fully paid ordinary share in the capital of ANZGHL.
AONIA means the Australian dollar interbank overnight cash rate (known as AONIA).
AONIA Rate means, for an Interest Period and in respect of an Interest Determination Date,
the rate determined by the Calculation Agent to be Compounded Daily AONIA for that
Interest Period and Interest Determination Date plus, if determining the AONIA Rate for the
purposes of a fallback from the BBSW Rate, the Adjustment Spread.
Applicable Benchmark Rate means the Benchmark Rate specified in the relevant Pricing
Supplement and, if a Permanent Fallback Effective Date has occurred with respect to the
BBSW Rate, AONIA or the RBA Recommended Rate, then the rate determined in
accordance with Condition 5.6.
Approved NOHC means an entity which:
(a) is a non-operating holding company within the meaning of the Banking Act (which
term, as used herein, includes any amendments thereto, rules thereunder and any
successor laws, amendments and rules); and
(b) has agreed for the benefit of Subordinated Noteholders:
(i) to issue fully paid ordinary shares in its capital under all circumstances when
the Issuer would otherwise have been required to Convert a Principal
Amount of Subordinated Notes, subject to the same terms and conditions as
set out in these Conditions (with all necessary modifications); and
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(ii) to use all reasonable endeavours to procure quotation of Approved NOHC
Ordinary Shares issued upon Conversion of relevant Subordinated Notes on
the Australian Securities Exchange.
Approved NOHC Ordinary Share means a fully paid ordinary share in the capital of the
Approved NOHC.
APRA means the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (or any successor organisation).
ASX Listing Rules means the listing rules of the Australian Securities Exchange as
amended, varied or waived (whether in respect of the Issuer, ANZGHL or generally) from
time to time.
ASX Operating Rules means the market operating rules of the Australian Securities
Exchange as amended, varied or waived (whether in respect of the Issuer, ANZGHL or
generally) from time to time.
Austraclear means Austraclear Ltd (ABN 94 002 060 773).
Austraclear Participant means a Participant as defined in the Austraclear Regulations.
Austraclear Regulations means the regulations known as the ‘Austraclear Regulations’
established by Austraclear (as amended from time to time), together with any subsidiary rules
or procedures of Austraclear that govern the use of the Austraclear System.
Austraclear System means the system operated by Austraclear for holding securities and
the electronic recording and settling of transactions in those securities between members of
that system.
Australia means the Commonwealth of Australia.
Australian Dollars and A$ means the lawful currency for the time being of Australia.
Australian Securities Exchange and ASX means ASX Limited (ABN 98 008 624 691) or the
Australian Securities Exchange operated by it (as the context requires).
Banking Act means Banking Act 1959 of Australia.
BBSW Rate means, for an Interest Period, the rate for prime bank eligible securities having a
tenor closest to the Interest Period which is designated as the AVG MID on the ‘Refinitiv
Screen ASX29 Page’ or “MID” rate on the ‘Bloomberg Screen BBSW Page’ (or any
designation which replaces that designation on the applicable page, or any replacement
page) at the Publication Time on the first day of that Interest Period.
Benchmark Rate means, for an Interest Period, either the BBSW Rate or the AONIA Rate as
specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement.
Bloomberg Adjustment Spread means the term adjusted AONIA spread relating to the
BBSW Rate provided by Bloomberg Index Services Limited (or a successor provider as
approved and/or appointed by ISDA from time to time as the provider of term adjusted AONIA
and the spread) (“BISL”) on the Fallback Rate (AONIA) Screen (or by other means), or
provided to, and published by, authorised distributors where “Fallback Rate (AONIA)
Screen” means the Bloomberg Screen corresponding to the Bloomberg ticker for the fallback
for the BBSW Rate accessed via the Bloomberg Screen <FBAK> <GO> Page (or, if
applicable, accessed via the Bloomberg Screen <HP> <GO>) or any other published source
designated by BISL.
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Broken Amount means the amount specified as such in (or calculated in accordance with
the provisions of) the relevant Pricing Supplement as it may be adjusted, in the case of the
Subordinated Notes, in accordance with Condition 7.4.
Business Day means:
(a) for the purposes of Conditions 7 to 10 (inclusive), a day which is a business day
within the meaning of the ASX Listing Rules; and
(b) for all other purposes, any day on which commercial banks are open for general
business in Sydney and in such other places as are specified as “Additional
Financial Centres” in the Pricing Supplement.
Business Day Convention means a convention for adjusting any date if it would otherwise
fall on a day that is not a Business Day and the following Business Day Conventions, where
specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement in relation to any date applicable to any Note,
have the following meanings:
(a) Floating Rate Business Day Convention means that the date is postponed to the
next day that is a Business Day unless it would thereby fall into the next calendar
month, in which event (x) such date shall be brought forward to the immediately
preceding Business Day and (y) each subsequent such date shall be the last
Business Day of the month in which such date would have fallen had it not been
subject to adjustment;
(b) Following Business Day Convention means that the date is postponed to the first
following day that is a Business Day;
(c) Modified Following Business Day Convention or “Modified Business Day
Convention” means that the date is postponed to the first following day that is a
Business Day unless that day falls in the next calendar month in which case that date
is the first preceding day that is a Business Day; and
(d) Preceding Business Day Convention means that the date is brought forward to the
first preceding day that is a Business Day.
Where no Business Day Convention is specified in a relevant Pricing Supplement, it shall be
deemed to be the Modified Following Business Day Convention.
Calculation Agent means, in respect of a Tranche of Notes, the person specified as the
Calculation Agent in the relevant Pricing Supplement. The Calculation Agent must be the
same for all Notes in a Series.
Certificate means a certificate confirming registered ownership of a Note.
CHESS means the Clearing House Electronic Subregister System operated by the Australian
Securities Exchange, or its affiliates or successors.
Code means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
Compounded Daily AONIA means, with respect to an Interest Period, the rate of return of a
daily compound interest investment as calculated by the Calculation Agent on the Interest
Determination Date, as follows:
[∏(1+
퐴푂푁퐼퐴
푖−5 푆퐵퐷
×푛
푖
365
)−1
푑
0
푖=1
]×
365
푑
where:
10
푨푶푵푰푨
풊−ퟓ푺푩푫
means the per annum rate expressed as a decimal which is the level of
AONIA provided by the Administrator and published as of the Publication Time for the
Sydney Business Day falling five Sydney Business Days prior to such Sydney
Business Day “푖";
풅 is the number of calendar days in the relevant Interest Period;
풅
ퟎ
is the number of Sydney Business Days in the relevant Interest Period;
풊 is a series of whole numbers from 1 to 풅
ퟎ
, each representing the relevant Sydney
Business Day in chronological order from (and including) the first Sydney Business
Day in the relevant Interest Period to (and including) the last Sydney Business Day in
such Interest Period;
풏
풊
for any Sydney Business Day “푖", means the number of calendar days from (and
including) such Sydney Business Day “푖" up to (but excluding) the following Sydney
Business Day; and
Sydney Business Day or 푺푩푫 means any day on which commercial banks are open
for general business in Sydney.
If, for any reason, Compounded Daily AONIA needs to be determined for a period other than
an Interest Period, Compounded Daily AONIA is to be determined as if that period were an
Interest Period starting on (and including) the first day of that period and ending on (but
excluding) the last day of that period.
Condition means the correspondingly numbered condition in these terms and conditions.
Control has the meaning given in the Corporations Act.
Conversion means, in relation to a Subordinated Note, the allotment and issue of ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares and the termination of the holder’s rights in relation to the relevant Principal
Amount of that Subordinated Note, in each case in accordance with the Schedule to these
Conditions, and Convert, Converting and Converted have corresponding meanings.
Conversion Number has the meaning given to it in Section 1(b) of the Schedule to these
Conditions.
Corporations Act means the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) of Australia.
Day Count Fraction means, in relation to the calculation of an amount of interest on any
Note for any period of time (from and including the first day of such period to but excluding
the last) (whether or not constituting an Interest Accrual Period, the Calculation Period):
(a) if Actual/360 is specified in the Pricing Supplement, the actual number of days in the
Calculation Period divided by 360;
(b) if Actual/365 or Actual/Actual is specified in the Pricing Supplement, the actual
number of days in the Calculation Period divided by 365 (or, if any portion of that
Calculation Period falls in a leap year, the sum of (A) the actual number of days in
that portion of the Calculation Period falling in a leap year divided by 366 and (B) the
actual number of days in that portion of the Calculation Period falling in a non-leap
year divided by 365);
(c) if Actual/365 (fixed) is specified in the Pricing Supplement, the actual number of
days in the Calculation Period divided by 365;
(d) if Actual/Actual (ICMA) is specified in the Pricing Supplement:
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(i) if the Calculation Period is equal to or shorter than the Determination Period
during which it falls, the number of days in the Calculation Period divided by
the product of:
(A) the number of days in such Determination Period; and
(B) the number of Determination Periods normally ending in any year;
and
(ii) if the Calculation Period is longer than one Determination Period, the sum of:
(A) the number of days in such Calculation Period falling in the
Determination Period in which it begins divided by the product of (1)
the number of days in such Determination Period and (2) the number
of Determination Periods normally ending in any year; and
(B) the number of days in such Calculation Period falling in the next
Determination Period divided by the product of (1) the number of
days in such Determination Period and (2) the number of
Determination Periods normally ending in any year,
where:
Determination Period means the period from and including an Interest
Payment Date in any year to but excluding the next Interest Payment Date;
(e) if 30/360 is specified in the Pricing Supplement, the number of days in the
Calculation Period divided by 360 (the number of days to be calculated on the basis
of a year of 360 days with 12 30-day months); and
(f) if RBA Bond Basis is specified in the Pricing Supplement, one divided by the
number of Interest Payment Dates in a year.
Deed of Undertaking means the deed poll made by ANZGHL in favour of Subordinated
Noteholders on or about 9 August 2023 (as amended, modified or supplemented from time to
time).
Deed Poll means the deed poll dated 20 June 2001 as last amended and restated on 17
September 2025 and as further amended and/or supplemented and/or restated as at the
Issue Date of the Notes, executed by the Issuer.
Director means a director of the Issuer.
Early Redemption Amount means the amount which may be payable in respect of a Note
which is, in relation to a Note other than a Zero Coupon Note, its Principal Amount or, in
relation to a Zero Coupon Note, as specified in Condition 6.4, unless otherwise specified as
such in (or calculated or determined in accordance with the provisions of) the relevant Pricing
Supplement.
Equal Ranking Securities means any present or future instrument that ranks in a winding-up
of the Issuer as the most junior claim in the winding-up of the Issuer ranking senior to Junior
Ranking Securities, and includes any instruments issued as Relevant Tier 2 Securities.
Event of Default in respect of Medium Term Notes, has the meaning given in Condition 15.1
and, in respect of Subordinated Notes, has the meaning given in Condition 15.2.
Extraordinary Resolution has the meaning given to it in the Meeting Provisions.
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Fallback Rate means, where a Permanent Discontinuation Trigger for an Applicable
Benchmark Rate has occurred, the rate that applies to replace that Applicable Benchmark
Rate in accordance with Condition 5.6.
FATCA means:
(a) Sections 1471-1474 of the Code (or any amended or successor version to the Code)
and any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof;
(b) any U.S. or non-U.S. fiscal or regulatory legislation, rules, guidance or practices
adopted pursuant to any intergovernmental agreement entered into in connection
with the implementation of either such sections of the Code or analogous provisions
of non-U.S. law; or
(c) any agreement pursuant to the implementation of paragraphs (a) or (b) above with
the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. government or any governmental or
taxation authority in any other jurisdiction.
FATCA Withholding means any deduction or withholding made for or on account of FATCA.
Final Fallback Rate means, in respect of an Applicable Benchmark Rate, the rate:
(a) determined by the Calculation Agent as a commercially reasonable alternative for the
Applicable Benchmark Rate taking into account all available information that, in good
faith, it considers relevant, provided that any rate (inclusive of any spreads or
adjustments) implemented by central counterparties and / or futures exchanges with
representative trade volumes in derivatives or futures referencing the Applicable
Benchmark Rate will be deemed to be acceptable for the purposes of this paragraph
(a), together with (without double counting) such adjustment spread (which may be a
positive or negative value or zero) that is customarily applied to the relevant
successor rate or alternative rate (as the case may be) in international debt capital
markets transactions to produce an industry-accepted replacement rate for
Benchmark Rate-linked floating rate notes at such time (together with such other
adjustments to the Business Day Convention, interest determination dates and
related provisions and definitions, in each case that are consistent with accepted
market practice for the use of such successor rate or alternative rate for Benchmark
Rate-linked floating rate notes at such time), or, if no such industry standard is
recognised or acknowledged, the method for calculating or determining such
adjustment spread determined by the Calculation Agent (in consultation with the
Issuer) to be appropriate; provided that
(b) if and for so long as no such successor rate or alternative rate can be determined in
accordance with paragraph (a), the Final Fallback Rate will be the last provided or
published level of that Applicable Benchmark Rate.
Final Redemption Amount means the amount payable in respect of a Note which is its
Principal Amount unless otherwise specified as such in (or calculated in accordance with the
provisions of) the relevant Pricing Supplement.
Fixed Coupon Amount means the amount specified as such in (or calculated in accordance
with the provisions of) the relevant Pricing Supplement as it may be adjusted, in the case of
the Subordinated Notes, in accordance with Condition 7.4.
Fixed Rate Note means a Note that bears interest at a fixed rate specified in the relevant
Pricing Supplement.
Floating Rate Note means a Note that bears interest at a floating rate specified in the
relevant Pricing Supplement.
Foreign Holder has the meaning given in Condition 8.4.
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Holder means:
(a) in respect of Subordinated Notes only and only for so long as such Subordinated
Notes are held in the Austraclear System, for the purposes of determining the person
entitled to be issued ANZGHL Ordinary Shares (or, where Condition 8.4 applies, the
net proceeds of sale of such shares) and the amount of their entitlements, a person
who is an Austraclear Participant; and
(b) otherwise, in relation to any Note, a person whose name is for the time being
recorded in the Register to signify ownership of the Note. If the Note is owned jointly
by more than one person, a Holder includes a person whose name appears in the
Register as a joint owner.
Inability Event shall mean the Issuer or ANZGHL is prevented by applicable law or order of
any court or action of any government authority (including regarding the insolvency, winding-
up or other external administration of the Issuer or ANZGHL) or any other reason from
performing any of their obligations necessary to effect the Conversion of any Subordinated
Notes.
Index means the index applying to a Note, as specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement.
Index Linked Interest Note means a Note (other than a Subordinated Note) that bears
interest at a rate calculated by reference to an Index.
Index Linked Notes means an Index Linked Interest Note or an Index Linked Redemption
Note.
Index Linked Redemption Note means a Note (other than a Subordinated Note) the Early
or Final Redemption Amount in respect of which is calculated by reference to an Index.
Instalment Amount means the amount specified as such in (or calculated in accordance
with the provisions of) the relevant Pricing Supplement.
Interest Accrual Period means the period beginning on (and including) the Interest
Commencement Date and ending on (but excluding) the first Interest Period Date and each
successive period beginning on (and including) an Interest Period Date and ending on (but
excluding) the next succeeding Interest Period Date during the relevant Interest Period,
except that the last Interest Accrual Period ends on (and excludes) the Maturity Date or the
date of any earlier redemption of a Note in accordance with the Conditions.
Interest Amount means the amount of interest payable in respect of a Note, and in the case
of Fixed Rate Notes, also means the Fixed Coupon Amount or Broken Amount, as the case
may be, so specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement and, in the case of the Subordinated
Notes, as it may be adjusted in accordance with Condition 7.4.
Interest Basis means the interest basis specified as such in the relevant Pricing Supplement.
Interest Commencement Date means the Issue Date in respect of Notes or such other date
as may be specified in the Pricing Supplement.
Interest Determination Date means, in respect of an Interest Period:
(a) where the BBSW Rate applies or the Final Fallback Rate applies under Condition
5.6(f)(iii) (BBSW and AONIA Benchmark Rate fallback), the first day of that Interest
Period; and
(b) otherwise, the fifth Business Day prior to the last day of that Interest Period.
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Interest Payment Date means the date or dates specified as such in, or determined in
accordance with the provisions of, the relevant Pricing Supplement and adjusted, if not a
Business Day, in accordance with the applicable Business Day Convention.
Interest Period means the period beginning on (and including) the Interest Commencement
Date and ending on (but excluding) the first Interest Payment Date and each successive
period beginning on (and including) an Interest Payment Date and ending on (but excluding)
the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, except that the final Interest Period ends on (but
excludes) the Maturity Date or any other period specified in the Pricing Supplement.
Interest Period Date means each Interest Payment Date unless otherwise specified in the
Pricing Supplement.
Issue Date means the date of issue of the Notes as specified in or determined in accordance
with the relevant Pricing Supplement.
Issue Date VWAP has the meaning given in the Schedule to these Conditions.
Issue Price means the issue price for the Notes specified in, calculated in or determined in
accordance with the provisions of the Pricing Supplement.
Issuer means Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ABN 11 005 357 522).
Junior Ranking Securities means any present or future instrument:
(a) issued as Tier 1 Capital; and
(b) that by its terms is, or is expressed to be, subordinated in a winding-up of the Issuer
to the claims of Subordinated Noteholders and other Equal Ranking Securities.
Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 means those terms as defined by APRA from time to time.
Margin means the margin specified as such in the relevant Pricing Supplement.
Maturity Date means the maturity date specified in, or determined in accordance with the
provisions of, the relevant Pricing Supplement and as recorded in the Register.
Maximum Rate of Interest means the maximum interest rate (if any) specified in, or
calculated or determined in accordance with the provisions of the relevant Pricing
Supplement.
Maximum Redemption Amount means the amount specified as such in (or calculated in
accordance with the provisions of) the relevant Pricing Supplement.
Medium Term Note means an unsubordinated note, being a debt obligation of the Issuer
owing to a Holder, the details of which are identified in the Register, and as more fully
described in Condition 3.1.
Meeting Provisions means the provisions for the convening of meetings of, and passing of
resolutions by, Holders set out in Schedule 2 of the Deed Poll.
Minimum Rate of Interest means the minimum interest rate (if any) specified in, or
calculated or determined in accordance with the provisions of the relevant Pricing
Supplement.
Minimum Redemption Amount means the amount specified as such in (or calculated in
accordance with the provisions of) the relevant Pricing Supplement.
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Non-Representative means, in respect of an Applicable Benchmark Rate, that the
Supervisor of that Applicable Benchmark Rate if the Applicable Benchmark Rate is the BBSW
Rate, or the Administrator of the Applicable Benchmark Rate if the Applicable Benchmark
Rate is the AONIA Rate or the RBA Recommended Rate:
(a) has determined that such Applicable Benchmark Rate is no longer, or as of a
specified future date will no longer be, representative of the underlying market and
economic reality that such Applicable Benchmark Rate is intended to measure and
that representativeness will not be restored; and
(b) is aware that such determination will engage certain contractual triggers for fallbacks
activated by pre-cessation announcements by such Supervisor (howsoever
described) in contracts.
Non-Viability Determination has the meaning given in Condition 7.2.
Non-Viability Trigger Event has the meaning given in Condition 7.2.
Note means either a Medium Term Note or a Subordinated Note, and, in these Conditions,
references to Notes are references to Notes of the relevant Series.
Noteholder means the Holder of a Note.
Offshore Associate means an associate (as defined in section 128F of the Income Tax
Assessment Act 1936 (Cth) of Australia) of the Issuer that is either a non-resident of Australia
which does not acquire the Notes in carrying on a business at or through a permanent
establishment in Australia or, alternatively, a resident of Australia that acquires the Notes in
carrying on business at or through a permanent establishment outside of Australia.
Optional Redemption Amount means the amount specified as such in (or calculated in
accordance with the provisions of) the relevant Pricing Supplement as it may be adjusted, in
the case of the Subordinated Notes, in accordance with Condition 7.4.
Optional Redemption Date means the date or dates specified as such in the relevant
Pricing Supplement.
outstanding means in relation to the Notes of any Series, all the Notes issued other than:
(a) those that have been redeemed in accordance with the Conditions;
(b) those which have become void or in respect of which claims have become
prescribed;
(c) those which have been purchased and cancelled as provided for in the Conditions;
and
(d) to the extent Converted or Written-Off.
Permanent Discontinuation Trigger means, in respect of an Applicable Benchmark Rate:
(a) a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the Administrator of
the Applicable Benchmark Rate announcing that it has ceased or that it will cease to
provide the Applicable Benchmark Rate permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at
the time of the statement or publication, there is no successor administrator or
provider, as applicable, that will continue to provide the Applicable Benchmark Rate
and, in the case of the BBSW Rate, a public statement or publication of information
by or on behalf of the Supervisor of the BBSW Rate has confirmed that cessation;
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(b) a public statement or publication of information by the Supervisor of the Applicable
Benchmark Rate, the Reserve Bank of Australia (or any successor central bank for
Australian Dollars), an insolvency official or resolution authority with jurisdiction over
the Administrator of the Applicable Benchmark Rate or a court or an entity with
similar insolvency or resolution authority over the Administrator of the Applicable
Benchmark Rate which states that the Administrator of the Applicable Benchmark
Rate has ceased or will cease to provide the Applicable Benchmark Rate
permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of the statement or publication,
there is no successor administrator or provider that will continue to provide the
Applicable Benchmark Rate and, in the case of the BBSW Rate and a public
statement or publication of information other than by the Supervisor, a public
statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the Supervisor of the BBSW
Rate has confirmed that cessation;
(c) a public statement by the Supervisor of the Applicable Benchmark Rate if the
Applicable Benchmark Rate is the BBSW Rate, or the Administrator of the Applicable
Benchmark Rate if the Applicable Benchmark Rate is the AONIA Rate or the RBA
Recommended Rate, as a consequence of which the Applicable Benchmark Rate will
be prohibited from being used either generally, or in respect of the Notes, or that its
use will be subject to restrictions or adverse consequences to the Issuer or a
Noteholder;
(d) as a consequence of a change in law or directive arising after the Issue Date of the
first Tranche of Notes of a Series, it has become unlawful for the Calculation Agent,
the Issuer or any other party responsible for calculations of interest under the
Conditions to calculate any payments due to be made to any Noteholder using the
Applicable Benchmark Rate;
(e) a public statement or publication of information by the Supervisor of the Applicable
Benchmark Rate if the Applicable Benchmark Rate is the BBSW Rate, or the
Administrator of the Applicable Benchmark Rate if the Applicable Benchmark Rate is
the AONIA Rate or the RBA Recommended Rate, stating that the Applicable
Benchmark Rate is Non-Representative; or
(f) the Applicable Benchmark Rate has otherwise ceased to exist or be administered on
a permanent or indefinite basis.
Permanent Fallback Effective Date means, in respect of a Permanent Discontinuation
Trigger for an Applicable Benchmark Rate:
(a) in the case of paragraphs (a) and (b) of the definition of Permanent Discontinuation
Trigger, the first date on which the Applicable Benchmark Rate would ordinarily have
been published or provided and is no longer published or provided;
(b) in the case of paragraphs (c) and (d) of the definition of Permanent Discontinuation
Trigger, the date from which use of the Applicable Benchmark Rate is prohibited or
becomes subject to restrictions or adverse consequences or the calculation becomes
unlawful (as applicable);
(c) in the case of paragraph (e) of the definition of Permanent Discontinuation Trigger,
the first date on which the Applicable Benchmark Rate would ordinarily have been
published or provided but is Non-Representative by reference to the most recent
statement or publication contemplated in that paragraph and even if such Applicable
Benchmark Rates continues to be published or provided on such date; or
(d) in the case of paragraph (f) of the definition of Permanent Discontinuation Trigger,
the date that event occurs.
Pricing Supplement means the pricing supplement document prepared in relation to the
Notes of the relevant Tranche.
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Principal Amount means the notional principal amount of each Note which will, unless
indicated otherwise or, in the case of the Subordinated Notes, as provided in Condition 7.4,
be the same amount as the Specified Denomination of each Note so specified in the
relevant Pricing Supplement.
Programme means the Australian Dollar Debt Issuance Programme of the Issuer providing
for the issue of Notes by the Issuer.
Publication Time:
(a) in respect of the BBSW Rate, 12.00noon (Sydney time) or any amended publication
time for the final intraday refix of such rate specified by the Administrator for the
BBSW Rate in its benchmark methodology;
(b) in respect of AONIA, 4.00pm (Sydney time) or any amended publication time for the
final intraday refix of such rate specified by the Administrator for AONIA in its
benchmark methodology; and
(c) in all other respects, means the Relevant Time or such other time at which a
Reference Rate customarily appears on the Relevant Screen Page.
Rate Multiplier means the rate multiplier specified as such in the relevant Pricing
Supplement.
Rate of Interest means, in respect of a Note, the interest rate (expressed as a percentage
rate per annum) payable in respect of that Note specified in the Pricing Supplement or
calculated or determined in accordance with these Conditions and the Pricing Supplement.
RBA Recommended Fallback Rate means, for an Interest Period and in respect of an
Interest Determination Date, the rate determined by the Calculation Agent to be the RBA
Recommended Rate for that Interest Period and Interest Determination Date.
RBA Recommended Rate means, in respect of any relevant day (including any day i), the
rate (inclusive of any spreads or adjustments) recommended as the replacement for AONIA
by the Reserve Bank of Australia (which rate may be produced by the Reserve Bank of
Australia or another administrator) and as provided by the Administrator of that rate or, if that
rate is not provided by the Administrator thereof, published by an authorised distributor in
respect of that day.
Record Date means, in the case of payments of interest or principal, the date specified in
relevant Pricing Supplement, prior to the relevant payment date.
Reference Banks means the institutions specified as such in the Pricing Supplement or, if
none, four major banks selected by the Calculation Agent in the interbank market (or, if
appropriate, money, swap or over-the-counter index options market) that is most closely
connected with the Reference Rate specified in the Pricing Supplement.
Reference Rate means the Applicable Benchmark Rate or the rate, if any, specified in the
relevant Pricing Supplement or any Successor Rate or Alternative Rate which has been
determined in relation to such rate pursuant to the operation of Condition 5.
Reference Rate Disruption Event has the meaning given in Condition 5.4.
Register means the register of Holders maintained by the Registrar in accordance with the
Registry Services Agreement or such other relevant agreement between the Registrar and
the Issuer.
Registrar means Austraclear Services Limited (ABN 28 003 284 419) or such other person
appointed and notified by the Issuer.
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Registry Office means the following office of the Registrar: 20 Bridge Street, Sydney, NSW
2000 or such other place notified by the Issuer or the Registrar.
Registry Services Agreement means the Registry Services Agreement dated 4 August
2010 as amended from time to time, between the Registrar and the Issuer.
Regulatory Capital shall mean a Tier 1 Capital Security or a Tier 2 Capital Security.
Regulatory Event has the meaning given in Condition 6.3.
Related Conversion Steps has the meaning given in Section 1(f) of the Schedule to these
Conditions.
Related Entity has the meaning given by APRA from time to time.
Relevant Date in respect of any Note means the date on which payment in respect of it first
becomes due or (if any amount of the money payable is improperly withheld or refused) the
date on which payment in full of the amount outstanding is made or (if earlier) the date seven
days after that on which notice is duly given to the Holders that such payment will be made,
provided that payment is in fact made.
Relevant Financial Centre means, with respect to any Floating Rate Note to be determined
in accordance with Screen Rate Determination on an Interest Determination Date the
financial centre specified as such in the Pricing Supplement or, if none is so specified, the
financial centre with which the relevant Reference Rate is most closely connected.
Relevant Screen Page means the page specified as such in the relevant Pricing
Supplement.
Relevant Securities means each of the:
(a) Relevant Tier 1 Securities; and
(b) Relevant Tier 2 Securities.
Relevant Tier 1 Security means, where a Non-Viability Trigger Event occurs, a Tier 1
Capital Security that, in accordance with its terms or by operation of law, is capable of being
converted into ANZGHL Ordinary Shares or written-off upon the occurrence of that event.
Relevant Tier 2 Security means, where a Non-Viability Trigger Event occurs, a Tier 2
Capital Security that, in accordance with its terms or by operation of law, is capable of being
converted into ANZGHL Ordinary Shares or written-off upon the occurrence of that event.
Relevant Time means, with respect to any Interest Determination Date, the relevant time
specified in the Pricing Supplement.
Reserve Bank Act means Reserve Bank Act 1959 of Australia.
Residual Redemption Amount means the outstanding Principal Amount calculated at the
relevant Residual Redemption Date.
Residual Redemption Date means the date specified as such in the relevant notice of
redemption, provided that such date is an Interest Payment Date.
Screen Rate Determination has the meaning specified in the Pricing Supplement and in
Condition 5.3.
Senior Creditors means all present and future creditors of the Issuer (including but not
limited to depositors of the Issuer) whose claims:
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(a) would be entitled to be admitted in the winding-up of the Issuer; and
(b) are not in respect of Equal Ranking Securities or Junior Ranking Securities.
Series means a Tranche of Notes together with any further Tranche or Tranches of Notes
which are:
(a) expressed to be consolidated and form a single Series; and
(b) identical in all respects (including as to listing) except for the respective Issue Dates,
Interest Commencement Dates, Issue Prices or amounts of the first payment of
interest.
Solvent means at any time in respect of the Issuer:
(a) it is able to pay all its debts as and when they become due and payable; and
(b) its assets exceed its liabilities, in each case determined on an unconsolidated stand-
alone basis.
Specified Denomination means the amount specified as such in (or calculated in
accordance with the provisions of) the relevant Pricing Supplement as it may be adjusted, in
the case of the Subordinated Notes, in accordance with Condition 7.4.
Subordinated Note means a subordinated medium term note, being a debt obligation of the
Issuer owing to a Holder, the details of which are identified in the Register, and as more fully
described in Condition 3.2.
Subordinated Noteholder means the Holder of a Subordinated Note.
Successor Reference Rate has the meaning given in Condition 5.4.
Supervisor means, in respect of an Applicable Benchmark Rate, the supervisor or
competent authority that is responsible for supervising that Applicable Benchmark Rate or the
Administrator of that Applicable Benchmark Rate, or any committee officially endorsed or
convened by any such supervisor or competent authority that is responsible for supervising
that Applicable Benchmark Rate or the Administrator of that Applicable Benchmark Rate.
Supervisor Recommended Rate means the rate formally recommended for use as the
temporary replacement for the BBSW Rate by the Supervisor of the BBSW Rate.
Taxes has the meaning given in Condition 13.1.
Temporary Disruption Trigger means, in respect of any Applicable Benchmark Rate which
is required for any determination:
(a) the Applicable Benchmark Rate has not been published by the applicable
Administrator or an authorised distributor and is not otherwise provided by the
Administrator, in respect of, on, for or by the time and date on which that Applicable
Benchmark Rate is required; or
(b) the Applicable Benchmark Rate is published or provided but the Calculation Agent
determines that there is an obvious or proven error in that rate.
Tier 1 Capital means the Tier 1 capital of the Issuer (on a Level 1 basis) or the ANZ Group
(on a Level 2 basis or, if applicable, a Level 3 basis) as defined by APRA from time to time.
Tier 1 Capital Security means a share, note or other security or instrument constituting
Tier 1 Capital.
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Tier 2 Capital means Tier 2 capital of the Issuer (on a Level 1 basis) or the ANZ Group (on a
Level 2 basis or, if applicable, a Level 3 basis) as defined by APRA from time to time.
Tier 2 Capital Security means a note or other security or instrument constituting Tier 2
Capital.
Tranche means Notes that are identical in all respects (including as to listing).
Transferee has the meaning given to it in Condition 10.2(c).
Trigger Event Date means the date (whether or not a Business Day) on which APRA notifies
the Issuer of a Non-Viability Trigger Event as contemplated in Condition 7.2.
Trigger Event Notice has the meaning given to it in Condition 7.3.
U.S. means the United States.
VWAP has the meaning given in the Schedule to these Conditions.
Written-Off
(a) where Condition 8 applies, has the meaning given to it in Condition 8.7; and
(b) where Conditions 9 applies, has the meaning given to it in Condition 9.2.
Zero Coupon Note means a Note (other than a Subordinated Note) that does not bear
interest.
1.2 Interpretations
In these Conditions unless the contrary intention appears:
(a) a reference to Conditions is a reference to these Conditions as supplemented,
modified or altered by the relevant Pricing Supplement;
(b) a reference to a statute, ordinance, code or other law includes regulations and other
instruments under it and consolidations, amendments, re-enactments or
replacements of any of them;
(c) the singular includes the plural and vice versa;
(d) the word “person” incorporates a firm, body corporate, an unincorporated
association or an authority;
(e) a reference to a person incorporates references to the person’s executors,
administrators, successors, substitutes (including, without limitation, persons taking
by novation) and assigns;
(f) a reference to any thing (including, without limitation, any amount) is a reference to
the whole and each part of it and a reference to a group of persons is a reference to
all of them collectively, to any two or more of them collectively and to each of them
individually;
(g) unless otherwise specified to the contrary, any reference to a particular time is a
reference to Sydney time;
(h) headings are inserted for convenience and do not affect the interpretation of these
Conditions;
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(i) all references to the issue or issuance of Notes are to the issue of Notes by the
Issuer;
(j) any provisions which refer to the requirements of APRA or any other prudential
regulatory requirements will apply to the Issuer only if the Issuer is an entity, or the
holding company of an entity, or is a direct or indirect subsidiary of an Approved
NOHC, subject to regulation and supervision by APRA at the relevant time;
(k) any provisions which require APRA’s consent or approval will apply only if APRA
requires that such consent or approval be given at the relevant time;
(l) any provisions in these Conditions requiring the prior approval of APRA for a
particular course of action to be taken by the Issuer do not imply that APRA has
given its consent or approval to the particular action as of the Issue Date of the
applicable Note;
(m) a reference to any term defined by APRA (including, without limitation, “Level 1”,
“Level 2”, “Level 3”, “Tier 1 Capital” and “Tier 2 Capital”) shall, if that term is replaced
or superseded in any of APRA’s applicable prudential regulatory requirements or
standards, be taken to be a reference to the replacement or equivalent term;
(n) the terms takeover bid, relevant interest and scheme of arrangement when used in
these Conditions have the meaning given in the Corporations Act;
(o) for the avoidance of doubt, if Conversion under Condition 8 or Write-Off under
Condition 9 of Subordinated Notes is to occur on a Trigger Event Date, then that
Conversion or Write-Off must occur on that date notwithstanding that it may not be a
Business Day;
(p) a reference to a term defined by the ASX Listing Rules or the ASX Operating Rules
shall, if that term is replaced in those rules, be taken to be a reference to the
replacement term; and
(q) in respect of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares, if the principal securities exchange on which
the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares are listed becomes other than the Australian
Securities Exchange, unless the context otherwise requires a reference to the
Australian Securities Exchange shall be read as a reference to that principal
securities exchange and a reference to the ASX Listing Rules, the ASX Operating
Rules or any term defined in any such rules, shall be read as a reference to the
corresponding rules of that exchange or corresponding defined terms in such rules
(as the case may be).
2 Form, Denomination and Title
2.1 Constitution
The Notes are registered debt obligations of the Issuer constituted by and owing under the
Deed Poll. The obligations of the Issuer in respect of these Conditions and the relevant
Pricing Supplement extend to each individual Note and, following on from that, the Holder of
each Note without the Holder having to join forces with any other Holder or any predecessor
in title of that Holder of a Note.
2.2 Title
Entry of the name of the person purchasing a Note, or the transferee of a Note on the
Register at the relevant time will constitute the passing of title of that Note and will be
conclusive evidence of that person’s entitlements to receive interest and repayment of
principal in the manner provided for in these Conditions (subject to rectification for fraud or
error). A Note registered in the name of more than one person is held by those persons as
joint tenants (unless requested otherwise and in a form satisfactory to the Issuer). Notes will
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be registered by name only without reference to any trusteeship. Neither the Issuer nor the
Registrar is, except as required by law, obliged to take notice of any other claim to a Note.
2.3 Independent Obligations
Each entry in the Register constitutes the separate and individual title of the Holder to the
indebtedness of the Issuer to that relevant Holder.
2.4 Location of Register
The Register will be established and maintained by the Registrar at its Registry Office unless
otherwise specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement.
2.5 Denomination
(a) Notes are issued in the Specified Denominations specified in the Pricing Supplement.
Notes may only be sold in Australia if the aggregate consideration payable to the
Issuer by the purchaser is at least A$500,000 (disregarding moneys lent by the
Issuer or its associates) or if the Notes are otherwise sold in a manner which does
not require disclosure to investors in accordance with Part 6D.2 and Chapter 7 of the
Corporations Act.
(b) Notes may only be issued by the Issuer in a jurisdiction or jurisdictions other than
Australia if the issue is in compliance with the laws of the jurisdiction in which the
issue or sale is made and the Notes are otherwise issued or sold in a manner that
does not require disclosure to investors under the laws of that jurisdiction or those
jurisdictions.
2.6 Austraclear
If Notes are lodged in the Austraclear System, the Registrar will enter Austraclear in the
Register as the Holder of those Notes. While those Notes remain in the Austraclear System,
all dealings (including transfers and payments) in relation to those Notes within the
Austraclear System will be governed by the Austraclear Regulations and need not comply
with these Conditions to the extent of any inconsistency provided that, in respect of
Subordinated Notes, the Austraclear Regulations do not override these Conditions if it would
impact the eligibility of the Subordinated Notes as Tier 2 Capital.
2.7 Certificates
No certificate or other evidence of title will be issued by or on behalf of the Issuer to evidence
title to a Note unless the Issuer determines that such certificates should be made available or
it is required to do so pursuant to any applicable law or regulation.
2.8 Acknowledgment
Where Austraclear is recorded in the Register as the Holder, each person in whose Security
Record (as defined in the Austraclear Regulations) that Note is recorded is deemed to
acknowledge in favour of the Registrar and Austraclear that:
(a) the Registrar’s decision to act as the Registrar of the Note does not constitute a
recommendation or endorsement by the Registrar or Austraclear in relation to the
Note but only indicates that such Note is considered by the Registrar to be
compatible with the performance by it of its obligations as Registrar under its
agreement with the Issuer to act as Registrar of the Note; and
(b) the Holder does not rely on any fact, matter or circumstance contrary to Condition
2.8(a).
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2.9 Australian Securities Exchange Listing
Notes which are listed on the Australian Securities Exchange will not be transferred through
or registered on CHESS and will not be CHESS approved securities. In the event that an
interface between the Register maintained by the Registrar and CHESS is established the
Conditions and any other Programme documents may be amended to facilitate settlement on
CHESS and so that the Notes will become CHESS approved securities.
3 Status
The Notes may be Medium Term Notes or Subordinated Notes as specified in the applicable
Pricing Supplement.
The Notes are not a deposit liability or protected account for the purposes of the Banking Act
and do not otherwise benefit from a priority under the Banking Act or other applicable law.
3.1 Medium Term Notes
The Medium Term Notes constitute senior, direct, unconditional and unsecured obligations of
the Issuer and rank pari passu among themselves and pari passu with all other present and
future unsubordinated and unsecured obligations of the Issuer (save for certain liabilities
mandatorily preferred by law including, but not limited to, amounts given priority under the
Banking Act and the Reserve Bank Act).
The Medium Term Notes rank senior to the Issuer's subordinated obligations, including the
Subordinated Notes.
The Medium Term Notes are not a deposit liability or protected account for the purposes of
the Banking Act and do not otherwise benefit from a priority under the Banking Act or other
applicable law.
3.2 Subordinated Notes
The Subordinated Notes constitute direct and unsecured subordinated obligations of the
Issuer and, unless otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement and subject to
Conditions 7 to 9 (inclusive), rank pari passu among themselves and with Equal Ranking
Securities. In the event of the winding-up of the Issuer (see Condition 16) and prior to the
commencement of the winding-up of the Issuer (see Condition 5.16), the principal amount of,
any interest on, and any other payments, including additional amounts, in respect of the
Subordinated Notes will rank behind all claims of Senior Creditors and subject to Conditions 7
to 9 (inclusive), pari passu with Equal Ranking Securities and ahead of Junior Ranking
Securities.
Neither the Issuer nor a Subordinated Noteholder has any contractual right to set off any sum
at any time due and payable to a Subordinated Noteholder or the Issuer (as applicable) under
or in relation to the Subordinated Notes against amounts owing by the Subordinated
Noteholder to the Issuer or by the Issuer to the Subordinated Noteholder (as applicable).
The Subordinated Notes do not limit the amount of liabilities ranking senior to the
Subordinated Notes that may be hereafter incurred or assumed by the Issuer.
The Subordinated Notes are not a deposit liability of the Issuer or protected account for the
purposes of the Banking Act and do not otherwise benefit from a priority under the Banking
Act or other applicable law.
4 Interest and other calculations
4.1 Interest on Fixed Rate Notes
Each Fixed Rate Note bears interest on its outstanding Principal Amount from, and including,
the Interest Commencement Date at the rate per annum (expressed as a percentage) equal
to the Rate of Interest, such interest being payable in arrear on each Interest Payment Date.
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If a Fixed Coupon Amount or a Broken Amount is specified in the applicable Pricing
Supplement, the amount of interest payable on each Interest Payment Date will amount to
the Fixed Coupon Amount or, if applicable, the Broken Amount so specified and in the case
of the Broken Amount will be payable on the particular Interest Payment Date(s) specified in
the applicable Pricing Supplement.
5 Interest on Floating Rate Notes and Index Linked Interest
Notes
5.1 Interest Payment Dates:
Each Floating Rate Note and Index Linked Interest Note bears interest on its outstanding
Principal Amount from the Interest Commencement Date at the rate per annum (expressed
as a percentage) equal to the Rate of Interest, such interest being payable in arrear on each
Interest Payment Date. Such Interest Payment Date(s) is/are either specified in the Pricing
Supplement as the Interest Payment Dates or, if no Interest Payment Date(s) are specified,
Interest Payment Date shall mean each date which falls the number of months or other period
shown in the Pricing Supplement as the Interest Period after the preceding Interest Payment
Date or, the case of the first Interest Payment Date, after the Interest Commencement Date.
5.2 Rate of Interest for Floating Rate Notes
The Rate of Interest in respect of Floating Rate Notes for each Interest Accrual Period shall
be determined by the Calculation Agent in the manner specified in the Pricing Supplement
and the provisions below relating to Screen Rate Determination, BBSW Rate Determination
and or AONIA Rate Determination shall apply (as the case may be and as amended by the
Pricing Supplement).
5.3 Screen Rate Determination
(a) If Screen Rate Determination is specified in the Pricing Supplement as the manner in
which the Rate of Interest is to be determined, the Rate of Interest for each Interest
Accrual Period shall (subject to Condition 5.4) be calculated (as determined by the
Calculation Agent) on the following basis:
(i) if the Reference Rate is a composite quotation or a quotation customarily
supplied by one entity, the Calculation Agent will determine the Reference
Rate which appears on the Relevant Screen Page at the then prevailing
Publication Time on the relevant Interest Determination Date; or
(ii) in any other case, the Calculation Agent will determine the arithmetic mean
of the Reference Rates which appear on the Relevant Screen Page at the
then prevailing Publication Time on the relevant Interest Determination Date;
(b) if paragraph (a)(i) above applies and no Reference Rate appears on the Relevant
Screen Page at the then prevailing Publication Time on the Interest Determination
Date or if sub-paragraph (a)(ii) applies and fewer than two Reference Rates appear
on the Relevant Screen Page at the then prevailing Publication Time on the Interest
Determination Date or if, in either case, the Relevant Screen Page is unavailable,
subject as provided below, the Rate of Interest shall be the arithmetic mean of the
Reference Rates that each of the Reference Banks is quoting (or such of them, being
at least two, as are so quoting) to leading banks in the Relevant Financial Centre at
the Publication Time on the Interest Determination Date, as determined by the
Calculation Agent; and
(c) if paragraph (b) above applies and the Calculation Agent determines that fewer than
two Reference Banks are so quoting the Reference Rate, subject as provided below,
the Rate of Interest shall be the arithmetic mean of the rates per annum (expressed
as a percentage) that the Calculation Agent determines to be the rates (being the
nearest equivalent to the Reference Rate) that at least two out of five leading banks
selected by the Calculation Agent (after consultation with the Issuer) in the Relevant
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Financial Centre, are quoting at or about the then prevailing Publication Time for a
period equivalent to the relative Interest Accrual Period to leading banks carrying on
business in the Relevant Financial Centre; except that, if fewer than two of such
banks are so quoting to such leading banks, the Rate of Interest shall be the Rate of
Interest determined on the previous Interest Determination Date (in the case of the
Medium Term Notes only, after readjustment for any difference between any Margin,
Rate Multiplier or Maximum or Minimum Rate of Interest applicable to the preceding
Interest Accrual Period and to the relevant Interest Accrual Period).
5.4 Screen Rate Benchmark Replacement
If the Calculation Agent determines that the Reference Rate has been affected by a
Reference Rate Disruption Event, then the following provisions shall apply:
(a) the Calculation Agent shall use as the “Reference Rate” such Successor Reference
Rate and such terms and other methodology described in paragraph (b) below that it
has determined;
(b) if the Calculation Agent has determined a Successor Reference Rate in accordance
with paragraph (a) above, the Calculation Agent may determine the Business Day
Convention, the definitions of Business Day, Day Count Fraction, Publication Time,
Relevant Screen Page, Relevant Time, Reference Rate and Interest Determination
Date and any other relevant methodology for calculating such Successor Reference
Rate, including any adjustment factor it determines is needed to make such
Successor Reference Rate comparable to the Reference Rate, subject to APRA’s
prior written approval in the case of Subordinated Notes; and
(c) if, in respect of an Interest Period or an Interest Accrual Period, the Calculation Agent
is unable to determine a Successor Reference Rate in accordance with paragraphs
(a) and (b) above, the Reference Rate for:
(i) that Interest Period or Interest Accrual Period shall be the Reference Rate
determined on the previous Interest Determination Date; and
(ii) any subsequent Interest Periods or Interest Accrual Periods shall be
determined in accordance with paragraphs (a) and (b) above and, if
necessary, this paragraph (c).
In the case of Subordinated Notes only, any Successor Reference Rate determined
by the Calculation Agent in accordance with paragraph (a) above, and any terms and
other relevant methodology for calculating such Successor Reference Rate (including
any adjustment factor to the Successor Reference Rate) determined by the
Calculation Agent in accordance with paragraph (b) above, will be subject to the prior
written approval of APRA having been obtained in each case.
Subordinated Noteholders should note that APRA's approval may not be given for
any Successor Reference Rate, and any terms and other relevant methodology for
calculating such Successor Reference Rate (including any adjustment factor to the
Successor Reference Rate) it considers to have the effect of increasing the Rate of
Interest contrary to applicable prudential standards.
(d) In making its determinations in accordance with Condition 5.4, the Calculation Agent:
(i) shall act in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner; and
(ii) may consult with such sources of market practice as it considers appropriate,
but otherwise may make such determination in its discretion (subject, in the case of
Subordinated Notes only, to the requirement for APRA’s prior written approval as
specified in this Condition 5.4 above).
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(e) For the purposes of this Condition 5.4:
(i) “Reference Rate Disruption Event” means that:
(A) the Reference Rate has been discontinued or otherwise ceased to
be calculated or administered; or
(B) the Reference Rate is no longer generally accepted in the Australian
market as a reference rate appropriate to floating rate debt
securities of a tenor and interest period comparable to that of the
Floating Rate Security; and
(ii) “Successor Reference Rate” means a rate that is generally accepted in the
Australian market as the successor to the Reference Rate, or if there is no
such rate, a reference rate appropriate to floating rate debt securities of a
tenor and interest period most comparable to that of the Floating Rate
Security.
5.5 BBSW Rate Determination and AONIA Rate Determination
(a) Where BBSW Rate Determination or AONIA Rate Determination is specified in the
relevant Pricing Supplement as the manner in which the Rate of Interest is to be
determined for each Interest Period, the Rate of Interest applicable to the Floating
Rate Notes for each such Interest Period is the sum of the Margin and either (x) the
BBSW Rate or (y) the AONIA Rate as specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement.
(b) Each Holder shall be deemed to acknowledge, accept and agree to be bound by, and
consents to, the determination of, substitution for and any adjustments made to the
BBSW Rate or the AONIA Rate, as applicable, in each case as described in this
Condition 5.5 and in Condition 5.6 below (in all cases without the need for any Holder
consent). Any determination, decision or election (including a decision to take or
refrain from taking any action or as to the occurrence or non-occurrence of any event
or circumstance), and any substitution for and adjustments made to, the BBSW Rate
or the AONIA Rate, as applicable, and in each case made in accordance with this
Condition 5.5 and Condition 5.6, will, in the absence of manifest or proven error, be
conclusive and binding on the Issuer, the holder of the relevant Notes and each
Calculation Agent and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in these Conditions
or other documentation relating to the Notes, shall become effective without the
consent of any person (except as expressly provided in Condition 5.6 in the case of
Subordinated Notes).
(c) If the Calculation Agent is a person other than the Issuer and that person is unwilling
or unable to determine a necessary rate, adjustment, quantum, formula, methodology
or other variable in order to calculate the applicable Rate of Interest, such rate,
adjustment, quantum, formula, methodology or other variable will be determined by
the Issuer (acting in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner) or, an
alternate financial institution (acting in good faith and in a commercially reasonable
manner) appointed by the Issuer (in its sole discretion) to so determine.
(d) All rates determined pursuant to this Condition 5.5 shall be expressed as a
percentage rate per annum and the resulting percentage will be rounded if necessary
to the fourth decimal place (i.e., to the nearest one ten-thousandth of a percentage
point) with 0.00005 being rounded upwards.
5.6 BBSW and AONIA Benchmark Rate fallback
If:
(a) a Temporary Disruption Trigger has occurred; or
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(b) a Permanent Discontinuation Trigger has occurred,
then, subject to APRA’s prior written approval in the case of Subordinated Notes, the
Benchmark Rate for an Interest Period, whilst such Temporary Disruption Trigger is
continuing or after a Permanent Discontinuation Trigger has occurred, means (in the following
order of application and precedence):
(c) where BBSW Rate is the Applicable Benchmark Rate, if a Temporary Disruption
Trigger has occurred with respect to the BBSW Rate, in the following order of
precedence:
(i) first, the Administrator Recommended Rate;
(ii) then the Supervisor Recommended Rate; and
(iii) lastly, the Final Fallback Rate;
(d) where the AONIA Rate is the Applicable Benchmark Rate or a determination of the
AONIA Rate is required for the purposes of paragraph (a) above, if a Temporary
Disruption Trigger has occurred with respect to AONIA, the rate for any day for which
AONIA is required will be the last provided or published level of AONIA;
(e) where a determination of the RBA Recommended Rate is required for the purposes
of paragraph (c) or (d) above, if a Temporary Disruption Trigger has occurred with
respect to the RBA Recommended Rate, the rate for any day for which the RBA
Recommended Rate is required will be the last rate provided or published by the
Administrator of the RBA Recommended Rate (or if no such rate has been so
provided or published, the last provided or published level of AONIA);
(f) where BBSW Rate is the Applicable Benchmark Rate, if a Permanent
Discontinuation Trigger has occurred with respect to the BBSW Rate, the rate for any
day for which the BBSW Rate is required on or after the Permanent Fallback
Effective Date will be the first rate available in the following order of precedence:
(i) first, if at the time of the BBSW Rate Permanent Fallback Effective Date, no
AONIA Permanent Fallback Effective Date has occurred, the AONIA Rate;
(ii) then, if at the time of the BBSW Rate Permanent Fallback Effective Date, an
AONIA Permanent Fallback Effective Date has occurred, an RBA
Recommended Rate has been created but no RBA Recommended Rate
Permanent Fallback Effective Date has occurred, the RBA Recommended
Fallback Rate; and
(iii) lastly, if neither paragraph (i) nor paragraph (ii) above apply, the Final
Fallback Rate;
(g) where the AONIA Rate is the Applicable Benchmark Rate or a determination of the
AONIA Rate is required for the purposes of paragraph (f)(i) above, if a Permanent
Discontinuation Trigger has occurred with respect to AONIA, the rate for any day for
which AONIA is required on or after the AONIA Permanent Fallback Effective Date
will be the first rate available in the following order of precedence:
(i) first, if at the time of the AONIA Permanent Fallback Effective Date, an RBA
Recommended Rate has been created but no RBA Recommended Rate
Permanent Fallback Effective Date has occurred, the RBA Recommended
Rate; and
(ii) lastly, if paragraph (i) above does not apply, the Final Fallback Rate; and
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(h) where a determination of the RBA Recommended Rate is required for the purposes
of paragraph (f) or (g) above, respectively, if a Permanent Discontinuation Trigger
has occurred with respect to the RBA Recommended Rate, the rate for any day for
which the RBA Recommended Rate is required on or after that Permanent Fallback
Effective Date will be the Final Fallback Rate.
When calculating an amount of interest in circumstances where a Fallback Rate other than
the Final Fallback Rate applies, that interest will be calculated as if references to the BBSW
Rate or AONIA Rate (as applicable) were references to that Fallback Rate. When calculating
interest in circumstances where the Final Fallback Rate applies, the amount of interest will be
calculated on the same basis as if the Applicable Benchmark Rate in effect immediately prior
to the application of that Final Fallback Rate remained in effect but with necessary
adjustments to substitute all references to that Applicable Benchmark Rate with
corresponding references to the Final Fallback Rate.
Subordinated Noteholders should note that APRA's approval may not be given for any
Fallback Rate, and any terms and other relevant methodology for calculating such Fallback
Rate (including any adjustment factor to the Fallback Rate) it considers to have the effect of
increasing the Rate of Interest contrary to applicable prudential standards.
5.7 Rate of Interest for Index Linked Interest Notes
The Rate of Interest in respect of Index Linked Interest Notes for each Interest Accrual Period
shall be determined in the manner specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement and interest
will accrue by reference to an Index or formula as specified in the relevant Pricing
Supplement.
5.8 Linear Interpolation
If the Pricing Supplement states that “Linear Interpolation” applies to an Interest Period, the
Calculation Agent must determine the Rate of Interest for that Interest Period using straight
line interpolation by reference to two rates determined using the Screen Rate Determination
or other floating rates, in each case, as specified in the Pricing Supplement. The first rate
must be determined as if the Interest Period were the period of time for which rates are
available next shorter than the length of the Interest Period (or any alternative Interest Period
specified in the Pricing Supplement). The second rate must be determined as if the Interest
Period were the period of time for which rates are available next longer than the length of the
Interest Period (or any alternative Interest Period specified in the Pricing Supplement).
5.9 Zero Coupon Notes
Where a Note, the Interest Basis of which is specified in the Pricing Supplement to be Zero
Coupon, is repayable prior to the Maturity Date and is not paid when due, the amount due
and payable prior to the Maturity Date shall be the Early Redemption Amount of such Note,
unless otherwise specified in the Pricing Supplement. As from the Maturity Date, the Rate of
Interest for any overdue principal of such a Note shall be a rate per annum (expressed as a
percentage) equal to the Amortisation Yield.
5.10 Accrual of Interest
Interest shall cease to accrue on each Note on the due date for redemption unless payment
is improperly withheld or refused, in which event interest shall continue to accrue (as well
after as before judgment) on the outstanding Principal Amount of the Note at the Rate of
Interest in the manner provided in this Condition 5 to the Relevant Date.
5.11 Margin, Maximum/Minimum Rates of Interest, Instalment Amounts and
Redemption Amounts, Rate Multipliers and rounding
(a) If any Margin or Rate Multiplier is specified in the Pricing Supplement (either (x)
generally, or (y) in relation to one or more Interest Accrual Periods), an adjustment
shall be made to all Rates of Interest, in the case of (x), or the Rates of Interest for
the specified Interest Accrual Periods, in the case of (y), calculated in accordance
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with 5 above by adding (if a positive number) or subtracting (if a negative number)
the absolute value of such Margin or multiplying by such Rate Multiplier, subject
always to the next paragraph.
(b) If any Maximum or Minimum Rate of Interest, Instalment Amount or Early, Final or
Optional Redemption Amount is specified in the Pricing Supplement, then any Rate
of Interest, Instalment Amount or Early, Final or Optional Redemption Amount shall
be subject to such maximum or minimum, as the case may be.
(c) Subject to the requirements of applicable law and, where the Notes are lodged in the
Austraclear System, the Austraclear Regulations, for the purposes of any
calculations required pursuant to these Conditions (unless otherwise specified), (x)
all percentages resulting from such calculations shall be rounded, if necessary, to the
nearest one hundred-thousandth of a percentage point (with halves being rounded
up), (y) all figures shall be rounded to seven decimal places (with halves being
rounded up) and (z) all currency amounts that fall due and payable shall be rounded
to the nearest cent (with one half cent being rounded up).
(d) The Pricing Supplement in respect of any Subordinated Notes must not specify a
Rate Multiplier, Maximum Rate of Interest, Minimum Rate of Interest or Instalment
Amount.
5.12 Calculations
The amount of interest payable in respect of any Note for any Interest Accrual Period shall,
subject where that Note is lodged in the Austraclear System, to the Austraclear Regulations,
be calculated by multiplying the product of the Rate of Interest and the outstanding Principal
Amount of such Note by the Day Count Fraction, unless an Interest Amount (or a formula for
its calculation) is specified in the Pricing Supplement in respect of such period, in which case
the amount of interest payable in respect of such Note for such period shall equal such
Interest Amount (or be calculated in accordance with such formula). Where any Interest
Period comprises two or more Interest Accrual Periods, the amount of interest payable in
respect of such Interest Period shall be the sum of the amounts of interest payable in respect
of each of those Interest Accrual Periods.
5.13 Determination and Publication of Rate of Interest, Interest Amounts, Early,
Final or Optional Redemption Amounts and Instalment Amounts
As soon as practicable after the Relevant Time on each Interest Determination Date or such
other time on such date as the Calculation Agent may be required to calculate any rate or
amount, obtain any quotation or make any determination or calculation, the Calculation Agent
shall:
(a) determine such rate and calculate the Interest Amounts in respect of each Specified
Denomination of the Notes for the relevant Interest Accrual Period;
(b) calculate the Final Redemption Amount, Early Redemption Amount, Instalment
Amount or Optional Redemption Amount;
(c) obtain such quotation or make such determination or calculation, as the case may
be; and
(d) cause:
(i) the Rate of Interest and the Interest Amounts for each Interest Accrual
Period and the relevant Interest Payment Date; and
(ii) if required to be calculated, the Final Redemption Amount, Early Redemption
Amount, Instalment Amount or Optional Redemption Amount,
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to be notified to:
(A) the Issuer;
(B) the Registrar (which will then notify the Holders of the calculation as
required by the Issuer to the address of the Holders recorded in the
Register);
(C) any other Calculation Agent appointed in respect of the Notes that is
to make a further calculation upon receipt of such information; and
(D) if the Notes are listed on a stock exchange and the rules of such
exchange so require, such exchange,
as soon as possible after their determination but in no event later than:
(iii) the commencement of the relevant Interest Accrual Period, if determined
prior to such time in the case of notification to such exchange of a Rate of
Interest and Interest Amount; or
(iv) in all other cases, the fourth Business Day after such determination.
Where any Interest Payment Date or Interest Accrual Period is subject to adjustment
pursuant to the application of a Business Day Convention, the Interest Amounts and
the Interest Payment Date so published may subsequently be amended (or
appropriate alternative arrangements made by way of adjustment) without notice in
the event of an extension or shortening of the Interest Accrual Period.
If the Notes become due and payable under Condition 15, the accrued interest and
the Rate of Interest payable in respect of the Notes shall nevertheless continue to be
calculated as previously in accordance with this Condition but no publication of the
Rate of Interest or the Interest Amount so calculated need be made.
The determination of any rate or amount, the obtaining of each quotation and the
making of each determination or calculation by the Calculation Agent(s) shall (in the
absence of manifest error) be final and binding upon all parties.
5.14 Calculation Agent
If the Conditions applicable to a Note contemplate the appointment of a Calculation Agent in
respect of that Note:
(a) the Issuer shall procure that, at all times, and for so long as any such Note is
outstanding, one or more persons is appointed as Calculation Agent;
(b) the Issuer may appoint itself as Calculation Agent;
(c) the Issuer may appoint more than one Calculation Agent in respect of the Notes, and
if it does so, references in these Conditions to the Calculation Agent shall be
construed as each Calculation Agent performing its respective duties under the
Conditions; and
(d) if the Calculation Agent is a person other than the Issuer and is unable or unwilling to
act as such or if the Calculation Agent fails duly to establish the Rate of Interest for
an Interest Accrual Period or to calculate any Interest Amount, Instalment Amount,
Final Redemption Amount, Early Redemption Amount or Optional Redemption
Amount or to comply with any other requirement in respect of a Note, except where
the Conditions or Pricing Supplement applicable to the Note otherwise provide, the
Issuer shall appoint a leading bank or investment banking firm engaged in the
interbank market (or, if appropriate, money, swap or over-the-counter index options
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market) that is most closely connected with the calculation or determination to be
made by the Calculation Agent to act as such in its place. The Calculation Agent
may not resign its duties without a successor having been appointed as aforesaid.
5.15 Certificates to be final
All certificates, communications, opinions, determinations, calculations, quotations and
decisions given, expressed, made or obtained for the purposes of the provisions of this
Condition 5 shall (in the absence of wilful default, bad faith or manifest error) be binding on
the Issuer, the Calculation Agent, the Registrar and all Holders, and (in the absence of wilful
default, bad faith or manifest error) no liability to the Issuer or the Holders, shall attach to the
Calculation Agent in connection with the exercise or non-exercise by it of its powers, duties
and discretions pursuant to such provisions.
5.16 Conditions of Payment – Subordinated Notes
Prior to the commencement of the winding-up of the Issuer (other than under or in connection
with a scheme of amalgamation or reconstruction not involving bankruptcy or insolvency):
(a) the obligations of the Issuer to make payments of principal of, any interest on, and
any other payments, including additional amounts, in respect of the Subordinated
Notes will be conditional on the Issuer being Solvent at the time of payment by the
Issuer; and
(b) no payment of principal of, any interest on, and any other payments, including
additional amounts, in respect of the Subordinated Notes shall be made unless the
Issuer is Solvent immediately after making the payment,
and if, pursuant to this Condition, the Issuer fails to make any payment of principal of, or
interest on, or any other payment, including additional amounts, in respect of any
Subordinated Note when due, such failure will not constitute an Event of Default for the
purposes of Condition 15.2(b).
A certificate signed by two authorised signatories, or an auditor, of the Issuer or, if the Issuer
is being wound up, its liquidator as to whether the Issuer is Solvent at any time is (in the
absence of wilful default, bad faith or manifest error) conclusive evidence of the information
contained in the certificate and will be binding on the Subordinated Noteholders. In the
absence of any such certificate, the Subordinated Noteholders are entitled to assume (unless
the contrary is proved) that the Issuer is Solvent at the time of, and will be Solvent
immediately after, any payment on or in respect of the Subordinated Notes.
6 Redemption, Purchase and Options
6.1 Redemption by Instalments and Final Redemption
(a) Unless previously redeemed, purchased and cancelled as provided in this Condition
6 or unless the relevant Instalment Date (being one of the dates so specified in the
Pricing Supplement) is extended pursuant to the Conditions or any provision of the
relevant Pricing Supplement, each Note that provides for Instalment Dates and
Instalment Amounts shall be partially redeemed on each Instalment Date at the
related Instalment Amount specified in the Pricing Supplement. The outstanding
Principal Amount of each such Note shall be reduced by the Instalment Amount (or, if
such Instalment Amount is calculated by reference to a proportion of the Principal
Amount of such Note, such proportion) for all purposes with effect from the related
Instalment Date, unless payment of the Instalment Amount is improperly withheld or
refused, in which case, such amount shall remain outstanding until the Relevant Date
relating to such Instalment Amount. A Subordinated Note will not provide for
redemption by instalments.
(b) Unless previously redeemed, purchased and cancelled as provided below or Written-
Off or Converted or its maturity is extended pursuant to the Conditions or any
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provision of the relevant Pricing Supplement, each Note shall be finally redeemed on
the Maturity Date specified in the Pricing Supplement at its Final Redemption Amount
or, in the case of a Note falling within paragraph (a) above, its final Instalment
Amount.
6.2 Redemption for taxation reasons
If, as a result of any change in or amendment to the laws or regulations of Australia or any
political subdivision or any authority thereof or therein having power to tax, or any change in
the application or official interpretation of such laws or regulations, which change or
amendment becomes effective after the Issue Date (and in respect of any Subordinated Note,
which the Issuer did not expect as at the Issue Date of that Subordinated Note) of any Note
(as specified in the Pricing Supplement):
(a) in the case of any Note, the Issuer has or will become obliged to pay any additional
amounts as provided in Condition 13;
(b) in the case of any Subordinated Note only and if specified in the Pricing Supplement,
the Issuer or the consolidated tax group of which it is a member would be exposed to
more than a de minimis amount of other taxes, levies, imposts, charges and duties
(including stamp and transaction duties) imposed by any authority together with any
related interest, penalties and expenses in connection with them, assessments or
other governmental charges in connection with any Note; or
(c) in the case of any Subordinated Note only and if specified in the Pricing Supplement,
the Issuer determines that any interest payable on any Note is not, or may not be,
allowed as a deduction for the purposes of Australian income tax,
the Issuer may at its option, at any time (if the Note is neither a Floating Rate Note nor an
Index Linked Interest Note) or on any Interest Payment Date (in the case of Floating Rate
Notes or Index Linked Interest Notes) and subject to Condition 6.10 in the case of any
Subordinated Note, on giving not more than 60 nor less than 30 days’ notice to the Holders of
the relevant Series (which notice shall be irrevocable) redeem all, but not some only, of the
Notes of the relevant Series at their Early Redemption Amount together with interest accrued
to the date fixed for redemption, provided where Condition 6.2(a) applies that no such notice
of redemption shall be given earlier than 90 days prior to the earliest date on which the Issuer
would be obliged to pay additional amounts were a payment in respect of the Notes then due.
Prior to the publication of any notice of redemption pursuant to this Condition 6.2, the Issuer
shall deliver to the Registrar a certificate signed by two persons each of whom is either a
Director, a senior executive or an authorised representative (or equivalent status) of the
Issuer stating that the Issuer is entitled to effect such redemption and setting forth a
statement of the facts showing that the conditions precedent to the right of the Issuer so to
redeem have occurred.
6.3 Redemption of Subordinated Notes for regulatory reasons
If specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement, if a Regulatory Event occurs, the Issuer may
at its option, at any time (if the Subordinated Note is not a Floating Rate Note) or on any
Interest Payment Date (in the case of a Subordinated Note that is a Floating Rate Note) and
subject to Condition 6.10 on giving not more than 60 nor less than 30 days’ notice to the
Subordinated Noteholders of the relevant Series (which notice shall be irrevocable) redeem
all, but not some only, of the Subordinated Notes of the relevant Series at their Early
Redemption Amount together with interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption. Prior to
the publication of any notice of redemption pursuant to this Condition 6.3, the Issuer shall
deliver to the Registrar a certificate signed by two persons each of whom is either a Director,
a senior executive or an authorised representative (or equivalent status) of the Issuer stating
that the Issuer is entitled to effect such redemption and setting forth a statement of the facts
showing that the conditions precedent to the right of the Issuer so to redeem have occurred.
For the purposes of this Condition, “Regulatory Event” means the receipt by the directors of
the Issuer of:
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(a) an opinion from a reputable legal counsel that as a result of any amendment to,
clarification of or change (including any announcement of a change that has been or
will be introduced) in, any law or regulation of Australia, or any official administrative
pronouncement or action or judicial decision interpreting or applying such laws or
regulations, which amendment, clarification or change is effective, or
pronouncement, action or decision is announced, after the Issue Date; or
(b) an official written statement from APRA,
that, in each case, the Issuer is not or will not be entitled to treat all Subordinated Notes of a
Series as Tier 2 Capital, provided that, in each case, on the Issue Date of the Subordinated
Notes, the Issuer did not expect that matters giving rise to the Regulatory Event would occur.
6.4 Early Redemption of Zero Coupon Notes
(a) The Early Redemption Amount payable in respect of any Zero Coupon Note that
does not bear interest prior to the Maturity Date, the Early Redemption Amount of
which is not linked to an index and/or a formula, upon redemption of such Note
pursuant to Condition 6.2, 6.5 or 6.6 or upon it becoming due and payable as
provided in Condition 15, shall be the Amortised Face Amount (calculated as
provided below) of such Note unless otherwise specified in the Pricing Supplement.
(b) Subject to the provisions of sub-paragraph (c) below, the “Amortised Face
Amount” of any such Note shall be the scheduled Final Redemption Amount of such
Note on the Maturity Date discounted to the date of its early redemption at a rate per
annum (expressed as a percentage) equal to the “Amortisation Yield” (which, if
none is set out in the Pricing Supplement, shall be such rate as would produce an
Amortised Face Amount equal to the Issue Price of the Notes if such Notes were
discounted back from the Maturity Date to the relevant Issue Date) compounded
annually. Where such calculation is to be made for a period of less than one year, it
shall be made on the basis of the Day Count Fraction set out in the Pricing
Supplement.
(c) If the Early Redemption Amount payable in respect of any such Note upon its
redemption pursuant to Condition 6.2, 6.5 or 6.6 or upon it becoming due and
payable as provided in Condition 15, is not paid when due, the Early Redemption
Amount due and payable in respect of such Note shall be the Amortised Face
Amount of such Note as defined in sub-paragraph (b) above, except that such sub-
paragraph shall have effect as though the reference therein to the date on which the
Note becomes due and payable were replaced by a reference to the Relevant Date.
The calculation of the Amortised Face Amount in accordance with this sub-paragraph
shall continue to be made (after, as well as before, judgment) until the Relevant Date,
unless the Relevant Date falls on or after the Maturity Date, in which case the
amount due and payable shall be the scheduled Final Redemption Amount of such
Note on the Maturity Date together with any interest that may accrue in accordance
with Condition 5.10.
Where such calculation is to be made for a period of less than one year, it shall be made on
the basis of the Day Count Fraction.
6.5 Redemption at the option of the Issuer and exercise of the Issuer's options
If a Call Option is included in the Pricing Supplement and subject to Condition 6.10 in the
case of any Subordinated Note, the Issuer may, on giving not less than five or more than 30
days’ irrevocable notice (subject to such other notice period as may be specified in the
Pricing Supplement under “Option Exercise Date”) to the Holders redeem or exercise any
Issuer’s option (as may be described in the Pricing Supplement) in relation to all or, if so
provided, some of the Notes on any Optional Redemption Date (which, in the case of a
Subordinated Note, may not be before the fifth anniversary of the Issue Date of that
Subordinated Note). Any such redemption of Notes shall be at their Optional Redemption
Amount together with interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption. Any such redemption
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or exercise of the Issuer's option shall just relate to Notes of a Principal Amount at least equal
to the Minimum Redemption Amount to be redeemed specified in the Pricing Supplement and
no greater than the Maximum Redemption Amount to be redeemed specified in the Pricing
Supplement.
All Notes in respect of which any such notice is given shall be redeemed, or the Issuer’s
option shall be exercised, on the date specified in such notice in accordance with this
Condition.
In the case of a partial redemption or a partial exercise of an Issuer’s option, the notice to
Holders shall also contain details of the Principal Amount of Notes to be redeemed or in
respect of which such option has been exercised, which shall have been drawn in such place
as may be fair and reasonable in the circumstances, having regard to prevailing market
practices and in such manner as it deems appropriate, subject to compliance with any
applicable laws and stock exchange requirements.
6.6 Clean-Up Redemption at the option of the Issuer (Clean-Up Call)
If a Clean-Up Call is specified as being applicable in the relevant Pricing Supplement and 75
per cent or more in aggregate Principal Amount of the relevant Series of Notes issued has
been redeemed or purchased and cancelled, the Issuer may, at its option, on giving not less
than five or more than 30 days’ irrevocable notice to the Holders of the relevant Series,
redeem all, but not some only, of those Notes outstanding on the Residual Redemption Date,
at their Residual Redemption Amount together with any accrued but unpaid interest to, but
excluding, the Residual Redemption Date.
A Clean-up Call may not be specified in the Pricing Supplement in respect of Subordinated
Notes.
6.7 Redemption at the Option of Holders and Exercise of Holders' Options
If a Put Option is specified in the Pricing Supplement, the Issuer shall, at the option of the
Holder of such Note, upon the Holder of such Note giving not less than 15 nor more than 30
days’ notice to the Issuer (subject to such other notice period as may be specified in the
Pricing Supplement under “Option Exercise Date”), redeem such Note on the Optional
Redemption Date(s) so provided at its Optional Redemption Amount together with interest
accrued to the date fixed for redemption. No such notice may be withdrawn without the prior
consent of the Issuer or if, prior to the due date for its redemption or the exercise of the
option, the relevant Note becomes immediately due and payable.
To exercise such option or any other Holder’s option that may be set out in the Pricing
Supplement, the Holder must complete, sign and deliver to the Registrar within the notice
period, a redemption notice (in the form obtainable from the Registrar) together with any
Certificate held by the Holder relating to the Notes to be transferred and such evidence as the
Registrar may require to establish the rights of that Holder to the relevant Notes.
A Put Option may not be specified in the Pricing Supplement in respect of Subordinated
Notes.
6.8 Purchases
The Issuer is taken to represent as at the date of issue of each Note, that it does not know or
have any reasonable grounds to suspect that that Note or any interest in or right in respect of
that Note is being or will later be, acquired either directly or indirectly by an Offshore
Associate of the Issuer acting other than in the capacity of a dealer, manager or underwriter
in relation to the placement of the Notes or a clearing house, custodian, funds manager or
responsible entity of a registered scheme within the meaning of the Corporations Act.
The Issuer and:
(a) in the case of the Subordinated Notes, any of its Related Entities; and
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(b) in any other case, any of its subsidiaries,
may, to the extent permitted by applicable laws and regulations and subject to Condition 6.10
in the case of any Subordinated Note, at any time purchase Notes in the open market or
otherwise. Notes purchased by the Issuer, any of its Related Entities or any of its subsidiaries
may be surrendered by the purchaser through the Issuer to the Registrar for cancellation or,
may be held or resold, in each case at the option of the Issuer, the relevant Related Entity or
the relevant subsidiary. In the event that Notes are purchased by the Issuer, any of its
Related Entities or any of its subsidiaries but not cancelled the Issuer, the relevant Related
Entity or the relevant subsidiary will relinquish any voting rights in respect of those purchased
Notes.
6.9 Cancellation
All Notes redeemed by the Issuer or surrendered by the purchaser through the Issuer for
cancellation shall be surrendered for cancellation by the Issuer or purchaser notifying the
Registrar and surrendering to the Registrar any Certificates held by the Holder relating to the
Notes to be cancelled by the Registrar and if so surrendered, the Notes will be cancelled
forthwith. Any Notes so surrendered for cancellation may not be reissued or resold and the
obligations of the Issuer in respect of any such Notes shall be discharged.
6.10 Consent of APRA
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Condition 6, the Issuer may not:
(a) redeem any Subordinated Notes under Conditions 6.2, 6.3 or 6.5 above; or
(b) prior to the Maturity Date purchase, or procure that any of its Related Entities
purchase, any Subordinated Notes under Condition 6.8 above,
without the prior written approval of APRA. In addition, the prior written approval of APRA is
required to modify, abrogate, amend, waive, vary or compromise the terms of any Series of
Subordinated Notes where such action may affect the eligibility of such Subordinated Notes
as Tier 2 Capital.
Subordinated Noteholders should not expect that APRA’s approval will be given for any
redemption or purchase of Subordinated Notes.
6.11 Conditions to redemption for Subordinated Notes
Without limiting Condition 6.10, the Issuer will not be permitted to redeem any Subordinated
Note unless the Subordinated Note is replaced concurrently or beforehand with Regulatory
Capital of the same or better quality and the replacement of the Subordinated Note is done
under conditions that are sustainable for the Issuer’s income capacity or APRA is satisfied
that the Issuer’s capital position at Level 1, Level 2 and, if applicable, Level 3 is well above its
minimum capital requirements after the Issuer elects to redeem the Subordinated Note.
7 Conversion or Write-Off of Subordinated Notes on Non-
Viability Trigger Event
7.1 Application to Subordinated Notes only
Conditions 7, 8 and 9 apply only to Subordinated Notes.
7.2 Non-Viability Trigger Event
A “Non-Viability Trigger Event” means the earlier of:
(a) the issuance to the Issuer of a written determination from APRA that conversion or
write-off of Relevant Securities is necessary because, without it, APRA considers that
the Issuer would become non-viable; or
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(b) a determination by APRA, notified to the Issuer in writing, that without a public sector
injection of capital, or equivalent support, the Issuer would become non-viable,
each such determination being a “Non-Viability Determination”.
7.3 Conversion or Write-Off of Subordinated Notes on Trigger Event Date
If a Non-Viability Trigger Event occurs:
(a) on the Trigger Event Date, subject only to Condition 8.5, such Principal Amount of
the Subordinated Notes will immediately Convert or be Written-Off (whichever is
applicable as specified in the Pricing Supplement) as is required by the Non-Viability
Determination provided that:
(i) where the Non-Viability Trigger Event occurs under Condition 7.2(a) and
such Non-Viability Determination does not require all Relevant Securities to
be converted into ANZGHL Ordinary Shares or written-off, such Principal
Amount of the Subordinated Notes shall Convert or be Written-Off
(whichever is applicable as specified in the Pricing Supplement) as is
sufficient (determined by the Issuer in accordance with Condition 7.3(b)) to
satisfy APRA that the Issuer is viable without further conversion or write-off;
and
(ii) where the Non-Viability Trigger Event occurs under Condition 7.2(b), all the
Principal Amount of the Subordinated Notes will immediately Convert or be
Written-Off (whichever is applicable as specified in the Pricing Supplement).
(b) the Issuer will determine the Principal Amount of Subordinated Notes which must be
Converted or Written-Off (as applicable) in accordance with Condition 7.3(a)(i), on
the following basis:
(i) first, convert into ANZGHL Ordinary Shares or write-off all Relevant Tier 1
Securities; and
(ii) secondly, if conversion into ANZGHL Ordinary Shares or write-off of all
Relevant Tier 1 Securities is not sufficient to satisfy the requirements of
Condition 7.3(a)(i) (and provided that as a result of the conversion or write-
off of Relevant Tier 1 Securities APRA has not withdrawn the Non-Viability
Determination), Convert or Write-Off (as applicable) a Principal Amount of
Subordinated Notes and convert into ANZGHL Ordinary Shares or write-off a
number or principal amount of other Relevant Tier 2 Securities on an
approximately pro-rata basis or in a manner that is otherwise, in the opinion
of the Issuer, fair and reasonable (subject to such adjustment as the Issuer
may determine to take into account the effect on marketable parcels and the
need to round to whole numbers the number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares
and the authorised denominations of the Principal Amount of any
Subordinated Note or the number or principal amount of other Relevant Tier
2 Securities remaining on issue, and the need to effect the conversion
immediately) and, for the purposes of this Condition 7.3(b)(ii), where the
specified currency of the principal amount of Relevant Tier 2 Securities is not
the same for all Relevant Tier 2 Securities, the Issuer may treat them as if
converted into a single currency of the Issuer’s choice at such rate of
exchange as the Issuer in good faith considers reasonable,
provided that such determination does not impede or delay the immediate
Conversion or Write-Off (as applicable) of the relevant Principal Amount of
Subordinated Notes;
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(c) on the Trigger Event Date, the Issuer shall determine the Subordinated Notes or
portions thereof as to which the Conversion or Write-Off (as applicable) is to take
effect and in making that determination may make any decisions with respect to the
identity of the Subordinated Noteholders at that time as may be necessary or
desirable to ensure Conversion or Write-Off (as applicable) occurs in an orderly
manner, including disregarding any transfers of Subordinated Notes that have not
been settled or registered at that time provided that such determination does not
impede or delay the immediate Conversion or Write-Off (as applicable) of the
relevant Principal Amount of Subordinated Notes;
(d) the Issuer must give notice of its determination pursuant to Condition 7.3(c) (a
“Trigger Event Notice”) as soon as practicable to the Subordinated Noteholders,
which must specify:
(i) the Trigger Event Date;
(ii) the Principal Amount of the Subordinated Notes Converted or Written-Off (as
applicable); and
(iii) the relevant number or principal amount of other Relevant Securities
converted or written-off;
(e) none of the following events shall prevent, impede or delay the Conversion or Write-
Off (as applicable) of Subordinated Notes as required by Condition 7.3(a):
(i) any failure or delay in the conversion or write-off of other Relevant
Securities;
(ii) any failure or delay in giving a Trigger Event Notice;
(iii) any failure or delay by a Subordinated Noteholder or any other party in
complying with the provisions of Condition 7.4;
(iv) any requirement to select or adjust the number or Principal Amount of
Subordinated Notes to be Converted or Written-Off (as applicable) in
accordance with Condition 7.3(b)(ii) or 7.3(c); and
(v) in the case of Conversion only, any failure or delay in quotation of ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares to be issued on Conversion.
If a Non-Viability Determination takes effect, the Issuer must perform the obligations in
respect of the determination immediately on the day it is received by the Issuer, whether or
not such day is a Business Day.
7.4 Conversion or Write-Off of a whole or of a portion of a Subordinated Note
If a Principal Amount of a Subordinated Note is required to be Converted or Written-Off, the
following provisions apply:
(a) The Issuer shall notify the Registrar of the Principal Amount of such Subordinated
Note that has been Converted or Written-Off (whether in whole or in part) and instruct
the Registrar to reflect this Conversion or Write-Off (as applicable) in the Register so
that the Principal Amount of such Subordinated Note is reduced, in the case of a
Subordinated Note Converted or Written-Off in whole, to zero, or, in the case of a
Subordinated Note which is Converted or Written-Off in part, to an amount equal to
the non-Converted or non-Written-Off (as applicable) portion of the Principal Amount
of such Subordinated Note;
(b) in the case of a Subordinated Note which is Converted or Written-Off only in part:
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(i) the Principal Amount of the Subordinated Note will be reduced to an amount
equal to the non-Converted or non-Written-Off portion (as applicable) of the
Principal Amount of such Subordinated Note;
(ii) ANZGHL will be taken to hold (as a result of the transfer in accordance with
the Schedule to these Conditions) a new Subordinated Note with a principal
amount equal to the Converted or Written-Off portion (as applicable) of the
Principal Amount of the original Subordinated Note, and on terms otherwise
identical to the terms of such Subordinated Note (the "Affected
Subordinated Note");
(iii) where the date of the Conversion or Write-Off is not an Interest Payment
Date, the amount of interest payable in respect of that Subordinated Note on
each Interest Payment Date falling after that date will be reduced and
calculated on the Principal Amount of that Subordinated Note as reduced on
that date;
(iv) for the purposes of any interest calculation, the Interest Amount, the Fixed
Coupon Amount, Broken Amount, the Calculation Amount and any related
amount in respect of that Subordinated Note shall be reduced in the same
proportion as the Principal Amount Converted or Written-Off in respect of
that Subordinated Note bears to the Principal Amount of that Subordinated
Note before such Conversion or Write-Off; and
(v) the Early Redemption Amount, the Final Redemption Amount, the Optional
Redemption Amount, the Specified Denomination and Principal Amount or
any related amount shall be reduced in the same proportion as the Principal
Amount Converted or Written-Off in respect of that Subordinated Note bears
to the Principal Amount of that Subordinated Note before such Conversion or
Write-Off;
(c) if a Certificate has been issued to the relevant Subordinated Noteholder in respect of
such Subordinated Note, then, if the Issuer so requires, such Subordinated
Noteholder shall surrender such Certificate to the Issuer (or, if the Issuer so directs,
to the Registrar) and, in the case of a Subordinated Note which is Converted or
Written-Off only in part, the Issuer shall deliver to the Subordinated Noteholder, a
Certificate for a Subordinated Note with a Principal Amount equal to the non-
Converted or non-Written-Off (as applicable) portion of the Principal Amount of such
Subordinated Note; and
(d) each Subordinated Noteholder irrevocably authorises the Issuer to sign any
document or transfer or do any other thing as may in the Issuer’s opinion be
necessary or desirable to effect any transfer of the Subordinated Notes the subject of
the Conversion.
8 Conversion of Subordinated Notes
8.1 Conversion of Subordinated Notes on Trigger Event Date
Unless "Write-Off – Applicable" is specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement, Condition 8
shall apply to the Subordinated Notes and, notwithstanding any other provision in these
Conditions, on the Trigger Event Date the relevant Principal Amount (as determined under
Condition 7.3) of the Subordinated Notes will Convert immediately and irrevocably.
On and from the Trigger Event Date, subject to Conditions 8.5 and 8.6(c)(iii), the Issuer and
ANZGHL shall treat any Subordinated Noteholder of any Subordinated Note or portion
thereof which is required to be Converted as the holder of the relevant number of ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares and will take all such steps, including updating any register, required to
record the Conversion and the issuance of such ANZGHL Ordinary Shares.
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8.2 Provision of information
Where a Principal Amount of Subordinated Notes is required to be Converted under
Condition 8, a Subordinated Noteholder of Subordinated Notes or portion thereof that are
subject to Conversion wishing to receive ANZGHL Ordinary Shares must, no later than the
Trigger Event Date (or, in the case where Condition 8.4(f) applies, within 30 days of the date
on which ANZGHL Ordinary Shares are issued upon such Conversion), have provided to the
Issuer:
(a) its name and address (or the name and address of any person in whose name it
directs the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to be issued) for entry into any register of title
and receipt of any certificate or holding statement in respect of any ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares;
(b) the security account details of such Subordinated Noteholder in CHESS or such
other account to which the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares may be credited; and
(c) such other information as is reasonably requested by the Issuer for the purposes of
enabling ANZGHL to issue the Conversion Number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to
such Subordinated Noteholder,
and the Issuer has no duty to seek or obtain such information.
8.3 Failure to Convert
Subject to Condition 8.4 and Condition 8.5, if, in respect of a Conversion of Subordinated
Notes, ANZGHL fails to issue, on the Trigger Event Date, the Conversion Number of
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares in respect of the relevant Principal Amount of such Subordinated
Notes to, or in accordance with the instructions of, the relevant Subordinated Noteholder on
the Trigger Event Date or any other nominee where Condition 8.4 applies, the Principal
Amount of such Subordinated Notes which would otherwise be subject to Conversion shall
remain on issue and outstanding until:
(a) the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares are issued to, or in accordance with the instructions of,
the Subordinated Noteholder of such Subordinated Notes; or
(b) such Subordinated Notes are Written-Off in accordance with these Conditions,
provided that the sole right of the Subordinated Noteholder in respect of Subordinated Notes
or portion thereof that are subject to Conversion is its right to be issued ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares upon Conversion (subject to its compliance with Condition 8.2 or to receive the
proceeds from their sale pursuant to Condition 8.4, as applicable) and the remedy of such
Subordinated Noteholder in respect of ANZGHL's failure to issue the ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares is limited (subject always to Condition 8.5) to seeking an order for specific
performance of ANZGHL's obligation to issue the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to the
Subordinated Noteholder or where Condition 8.4 applies to the nominee and to receive such
proceeds of sale, in each case, in accordance with the terms of the Subordinated Notes. This
Condition 8.3 does not affect the obligation of ANZGHL to issue the ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares when required in accordance with these Conditions.
8.4 Issue to nominee
If, in respect of a Subordinated Note and a Subordinated Noteholder of that Subordinated
Note, the Subordinated Note or portion thereof is required to be Converted and:
(a) the Subordinated Noteholder has notified the Issuer that it does not wish to receive
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares as a result of the Conversion (whether entirely or to the
extent specified in the notice), which notice may be given at any time prior to the
Trigger Event Date;
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(b) the Subordinated Notes are held by a Subordinated Noteholder whose address in the
register is a place outside Australia or who the Issuer otherwise believes may not be
a resident of Australia (a “Foreign Holder”);
(c) for any reason (whether or not due to the fault of the Subordinated Noteholder) the
Issuer has not received the information required by Condition 8.2 prior to the Trigger
Event Date and the lack of such information would prevent ANZGHL from issuing the
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to the Subordinated Noteholder on the Trigger Event
Date; or
(d) a FATCA Withholding is required to be made in respect of the ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares issued on Conversion,
then, on the Trigger Event Date:
(e) where Condition 8.4(a), 8.4(b) or 8.4(d) applies, ANZGHL shall issue the ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares to the Subordinated Noteholder only to the extent (if at all) that:
(i) where Condition 8.4(a) applies, the Subordinated Noteholder has notified the
Issuer that it wishes to receive them;
(ii) where Condition 8.4(b) applies, the Issuer is satisfied that the laws of both
Australia and the Foreign Holder’s country of residence permit the issue of
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to the Foreign Holder (but as to which the Issuer
is not bound to enquire), either unconditionally or after compliance with
conditions which the Issuer in its absolute discretion regards as acceptable
and not unduly onerous; and
(iii) where Condition 8.4(d) applies, the issue is net of the FATCA Withholding;
and, to the extent ANZGHL is not obliged to issue ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to the
Subordinated Noteholder, ANZGHL will issue the balance of the ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares to the nominee in accordance with Condition 8.4(f); and
(f) otherwise, subject to applicable law, ANZGHL will issue the balance of ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares in respect of the Subordinated Noteholder to a competent nominee
(which may not be the Issuer or any of its Related Entities) and will promptly notify
such Subordinated Noteholder of the name of and contact information for the
nominee and the number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares issued to the nominee on its
behalf and, subject to applicable law and:
(i) subject to Condition 8.4(f)(ii), the nominee will as soon as reasonably
possible and no later than 35 days after issue of the ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares sell those ANZGHL Ordinary Shares and pay a cash amount equal to
the net proceeds received, after deducting any applicable brokerage, stamp
duty and other taxes and charges, to the Subordinated Noteholder;
(ii) where Condition 8.4(c) applies, the nominee will hold such ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares and will transfer ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to such
Subordinated Noteholder promptly after such Subordinated Noteholder
provides the nominee with the information required to be provided by such
Subordinated Noteholder under Condition 8.2 (as if a reference in Condition
8.2 to the Issuer is a reference to the nominee and a reference to the issue
of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares is a reference to the transfer of ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares) but only where such information is provided to the nominee
within 30 days of the date on which ANZGHL Ordinary Shares are issued to
the nominee upon Conversion of such Subordinated Note and failing which
the nominee will sell the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares and pay the proceeds to
such Subordinated Noteholder in accordance with Condition 8.4(f)(i); and
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(iii) where Condition 8.4(d) applies, the nominee shall deal with ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares the subject of a FATCA Withholding and any proceeds of
their disposal in accordance with FATCA;
(g) nothing in this Condition 8.4 shall affect the Conversion of the Subordinated Notes of
a Subordinated Noteholder who is not a person to which any of Condition 8.4(a) to
8.4(d) (inclusive) applies; and
(h) for the purposes of this Condition 8.4, none of the Issuer, ANZGHL or the nominee
owes any obligations or duties to the Subordinated Noteholders in relation to the
price at which ANZGHL Ordinary Shares are sold or has any liability for any loss
suffered by a Subordinated Noteholder as a result of the sale of ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares.
8.5 Write-Off of Subordinated Notes if Conversion is not effected within 5
Business Days after a Trigger Event Date
Notwithstanding any other provision of Condition 8 and provided that "Write-Off – Applicable"
is not specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement, where Subordinated Notes are required to
be Converted on the Trigger Event Date and Conversion of the relevant Principal Amount of
the Subordinated Notes that are subject to Conversion has not been effected within five
Business Days after the relevant Trigger Event Date for any reason (including an Inability
Event):
(a) the relevant Principal Amount of each Subordinated Note which, but for this
Condition 8.5, would be Converted, will not be Converted and instead will be Written-
Off with effect on and from the Trigger Event Date; and
(b) the Issuer shall notify the Subordinated Noteholders as promptly as practically
possible that Conversion of the relevant Principal Amount of the Subordinated Notes
has not occurred and that such Principal Amount of the Subordinated Notes has
been Written-Off.
8.6 Subordinated Noteholder acknowledgements
Each Subordinated Noteholder irrevocably:
(a) consents to becoming a member of ANZGHL upon the Conversion of the relevant
Principal Amount of Subordinated Notes as required by this Condition 8 and agrees
to be bound by the constitution of ANZGHL, in each case in respect of the ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares issued to such Subordinated Noteholder on Conversion;
(b) acknowledges and agrees that it is obliged to accept ANZGHL Ordinary Shares upon
a Conversion of the Principal Amount of Subordinated Notes it holds notwithstanding
anything that might otherwise affect a Conversion of such Principal Amount of
Subordinated Notes including:
(i) any change in the financial position of the Issuer or ANZGHL, since the issue
of such Subordinated Notes;
(ii) any disruption to the market or potential market for the ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares or to capital markets generally; or
(iii) any breach by the Issuer or ANZGHL of any obligation in connection with
such Subordinated Notes;
(c) acknowledges and agrees that where Condition 7.3 applies:
(i) there are no other conditions to a Non-Viability Trigger Event occurring as
and when provided in Condition 7.2;
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(ii) Conversion must occur immediately on the occurrence of a Non-Viability
Trigger Event and that may result in disruption or failures in trading or
dealings in the Subordinated Notes;
(iii) it will not have any rights to vote in respect of any Conversion and that the
Subordinated Note does not confer a right to vote at any meeting of
members of the Issuer or ANZGHL; and
(iv) the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares issued on Conversion may not be quoted at
the time of issue, or at all;
(d) acknowledges and agrees that where Condition 8.5 applies, no conditions or events
will affect the operation of that Condition and such Subordinated Noteholder will not
have any rights to vote in respect of any Write-Off under that Condition and has no
claim against the Issuer or ANZGHL, arising in connection with the application of that
Condition;
(e) acknowledges and agrees that such Subordinated Noteholder has no right to request
a Conversion of any Principal Amount of any Subordinated Notes or to determine
whether (or in what circumstances) the Principal Amount of Subordinated Notes it
holds is Converted;
(f) acknowledges and agrees that none of the following shall prevent, impede or delay
the Conversion or (where relevant) Write-Off of the Principal Amount of Subordinated
Notes:
(i) any failure to or delay in the conversion or write-off of other Relevant
Securities;
(ii) any failure or delay in giving a Trigger Event Notice or other notice required
by this Condition 8;
(iii) any failure or delay in quotation of the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to be
issued on Conversion;
(iv) any failure or delay by a Subordinated Noteholder or any other party in
complying with the provisions of Condition 7.4; and
(v) any requirement to select or adjust the number or Principal Amount of
Subordinated Notes to be Converted in accordance with Condition 7.3(b)(ii)
or 7.3(c); and
(g) acknowledges and agrees that if, in respect of a Conversion, ANZGHL has issued
the Conversion Number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to the holder of Subordinated
Notes but the Subordinated Note or portion thereof has not been transferred free
from encumbrance to or as directed by ANZGHL, the Subordinated Note or such
portion shall be Written-Off in accordance with Condition 8.7 without prejudice to the
issue of the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares.
8.7 Meaning of “Written-Off”
For the purposes of Condition 8, “Written-Off” shall mean that, in respect of a Subordinated
Note or portion thereof that is otherwise subject to Conversion and a Trigger Event Date:
(a) the Subordinated Note or portion thereof that is otherwise subject to Conversion will
not be Converted on that date and will not be Converted or redeemed under these
Conditions on any subsequent date; and
(b) with effect on and from the Trigger Event Date, the rights of the relevant
Subordinated Noteholder of the Subordinated Note or portion thereof (including any
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right to receive any payment thereunder including payments of principal and interest
both in the future and accrued but unpaid as at the Trigger Event Date) in relation to
such Subordinated Note or portion thereof are immediately and irrevocably
terminated and written-off; and
“Write-Off” has a corresponding meaning.
9 Write-Off of Subordinated Notes
9.1 Write-Off of Subordinated Notes on Trigger Event Date
If "Write-Off – Applicable" is specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement, Condition 9 shall
apply to the Subordinated Notes and on the Trigger Event Date the rights of the Subordinated
Noteholder of the relevant Subordinated Notes in relation to the relevant Principal Amount (as
determined under Condition 7.3) of the Subordinated Notes are Written-Off (as that term is
defined for the purposes of Condition 9).
Each Subordinated Noteholder irrevocably acknowledges and agrees that no conditions or
events will affect the operation of this Condition 9 and such Subordinated Noteholder will not
have any rights to vote in respect of any Write-Off under this Condition 9.1.
9.2 Meaning of “Written-Off”
For the purposes of this Condition 9, “Written-Off” shall mean that, in respect of a
Subordinated Note or portion thereof and a Trigger Event Date, the rights of the relevant
Subordinated Noteholder (including any right to receive any payment thereunder including
payments of principal and interest both in the future and accrued but unpaid as at the Trigger
Event Date) in relation to such Subordinated Note or portion thereof are immediately and
irrevocably terminated and written-off, and “Write-Off” has a corresponding meaning.
10 Substitution of Issuer
10.1 Application of this Conditions
Unless "Write-Off – Applicable" is specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement, this Condition
10 shall apply to the Subordinated Notes.
10.2 Substitution of Approved NOHC
Where:
(a) either of the following occurs:
(i) a takeover bid is made to acquire all or some of the ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares and such offer is, or becomes, unconditional and either:
(A) the bidder has at any time during the offer period, a relevant interest
in more than 50 per cent. of the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares on issue;
or
(B) the directors of the ANZGHL, acting as a board, issue a statement
that at least a majority of its directors who are eligible to do so have
recommended acceptance of such offer (in the absence of a higher
offer); or
(ii) a court orders the holding of meetings to approve a scheme of arrangement
under Part 5.1 of the Corporations Act, which scheme would result in a
person having a relevant interest in more than 50 per cent. of the ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares that will be on issue after the scheme is implemented and:
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(A) all classes of members of ANZGHL pass all resolutions required to
approve the scheme by the majorities required under the
Corporations Act, to approve the scheme; and
(B) an independent expert issues a report that the proposals in
connection with the scheme are in the best interests of the holders
of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares; and
(b) the bidder or the person having a relevant interest in the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares in
the ANZGHL after the scheme is implemented (or any entity that Controls the bidder
or the person having the relevant interest) is an Approved NOHC,
then the Issuer without further authority, assent or approval of the Subordinated Noteholders
may (but with the prior written approval of APRA):
(c) amend these Conditions such that, unless APRA otherwise agrees, on the date the
Principal Amount of Subordinated Notes is to be Converted:
(i) each Subordinated Note that is being Converted in whole will be
automatically transferred by each holder of such Subordinated Note free
from encumbrance to the Approved NOHC (or another member of the ANZ
Group which is a holding company of the Issuer) (the "Transferee") on the
date the Conversion is to occur;
(ii) in respect of each Subordinated Note that is being Converted only in part, on
the date the Conversion is to occur:
(A) the Principal Amount of the Subordinated Note that is being
Converted shall be reduced to an amount equal to the non-
Converted portion of the Principal Amount of such Subordinated
Note in accordance with Condition 7.4; and
(B) the Approved NOHC will be taken to hold a new Subordinated Note
with a Principal Amount equal to the Converted portion of the
Principal Amount of the Subordinated Note being Converted,
provided that any failure or delay by a Subordinated Noteholder or any other
party in complying with the provisions of Condition 10.2(c)(ii) shall not
prevent, impede or delay the Conversion or Write-Off of Subordinated Notes;
(iii) each holder (or a nominee in accordance with Condition 8.2 or 8.4 (as
applicable), which provisions shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to such
Approved NOHC Ordinary Shares) of the Subordinated Note or portion
thereof being Converted will be issued a number of Approved NOHC
Ordinary Shares equal to the Conversion Number and the provisions of the
Schedule to these Conditions shall apply (with any necessary changes) to
the determination of the number of such Approved NOHC Ordinary Shares;
(iv) as between the Issuer and the Transferee, each Subordinated Note held by
the Transferee as a result of Condition 10.2(c)(i) will be automatically
Converted into a number of ANZBGL Ordinary Shares in a number and at a
price such that the issued share capital held by the Transferee (or a wholly
owned subsidiary of the Transferee) increases by the amount by which the
issued ordinary share capital of the Approved NOHC increases on
Conversion; and
(v) make such other amendments as in the Issuer’s reasonable opinion are
necessary or appropriate to effect the substitution of an Approved NOHC as
the provider of the ordinary shares on Conversion in the manner
contemplated by these Conditions, including, where the terms upon which
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the Approved NOHC acquires the Issuer are such that the number of
Approved NOHC Ordinary Shares on issue immediately after the substitution
differs from the number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares on issue immediately
before that substitution (not involving any cash payment or other distribution
to or by the holders of any such shares), an adjustment to any relevant
VWAP or Issue Date VWAP consistent with the principles of adjustment set
out in the Schedule to these Conditions.
10.3 Notice of substitution of Approved NOHC
The Issuer shall give a notice to the Subordinated Noteholders as soon as practicable after
the substitution in accordance with Condition 10.2 specifying the amendments to these
Conditions which will be made in accordance with Condition 10.2 to effect the substitution of
an Approved NOHC as issuer of ordinary shares on Conversion.
10.4 Further substitutions
After a substitution under Condition 10.2, the Approved NOHC may without the authority,
approval or assent of the holder of Subordinated Notes, effect a further substitution in
accordance with Condition 10.2 (with necessary changes).
11 Payments
11.1 Payments by the Issuer
(a) Payments in respect of interest or principal on any Note made by the Issuer to
Holders will be made in accordance with details recorded with the Registrar by 5:00
pm local Registry Office time on the relevant Record Date.
(b) When a Note is recorded in the Register as being held jointly, payment of interest or
principal (as the case may be) by the Issuer will be made to the Holders in their joint
names unless requested otherwise (and in a form satisfactory to the Issuer) by 5:00
pm local Registry Office time on the relevant Record Date.
11.2 Method of Payment
Payments in respect of each Note will be made:
(a) where the Notes are lodged in the Austraclear System, by crediting on the relevant
Interest Payment Date or Maturity Date (determined in accordance with the Business
Day Convention specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement) the amount then due to
the account of the relevant Holder in accordance with the Austraclear Regulations; or
(b) if the relevant Notes have not been lodged or are removed from the Austraclear
System, by crediting on the relevant Interest Payment Date, in the case of payments
of interest, or the Maturity Date, in the case of payments of principal, the amount then
due to a bank account in Australia previously notified by the Holder to the Registrar.
Each Interest Payment Date and Maturity Date shall be determined in accordance
with the Business Day Convention specified in the relevant Pricing Supplement. If
the Holder has not notified the Registrar of such an account by 5.00pm local Registry
Office time on the relevant Record Date or upon application by the Holder to the
Registrar no later than 5.00pm local Registry Office time on the relevant Record
Date, payments in respect of the relevant Note will be made by cheque mailed on the
Business Day immediately preceding the relevant Interest Payment Date in the case
of payments of interest or on the Maturity Date, in the case of payments of principal,
at the Holder’s risk to the Holder (or to the first named of joint Holders) of such Note
at the address appearing in the Register as at 5.00pm local Registry Office time on
the relevant Record Date. Cheques to be despatched to the nominated address of a
Holder will in such case be deemed to have been received by the Holder on the
relevant Interest Payment Date, in the case of payments of interest, or the Maturity
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Date, in the case of payments of principal, and no further amount will be payable by
the Issuer in respect of the relevant Note as a result of payment not being received
by the Holder on the due date.
No payment of interest will be mailed to an address in the United States or transferred to an
account maintained by the Holder in the United States.
11.3 Payments Subject to Fiscal Laws
All payments are subject in all cases to any applicable fiscal or other laws, regulations and
directives, but without prejudice to the provisions of Condition 13. No commission or
expenses shall be charged to the Holders in respect of such payments.
11.4 Appointment of Agents
The Registrar and (if appointed) the Calculation Agent act solely as agents of the Issuer and
do not assume any obligation or relationship of agency or trust for or with any Holder. The
Issuer reserves the right at any time to vary or terminate the appointment of the Registrar or
(if appointed) the Calculation Agent, provided that the Issuer shall at all times maintain (i) a
Registrar, (ii) one or more Calculation Agent(s) where the Conditions so require, and (iii) such
other agents as may be required by the rules of any stock exchange, listing authority and/or
quotation system on which the Notes may be admitted to listing, trading and/or quotation.
Notice of any change to the specified office of the Registrar or the Calculation Agent shall
promptly be given to the Holders in accordance with Condition 19.
12 Transfer
12.1 Transfer
(a) Unless Notes are lodged in the Austraclear System, and subject to Condition 12.2, all
applications to transfer Notes must be made by lodging with the Registrar a properly
completed transfer and acceptance form in the form approved by the Issuer and the
Registrar. Any Certificate relating to the Notes to be transferred must also be
surrendered to the Registrar. Transfer and acceptance forms are available from any
Registry Office. Each Registry Office will provide prompt marking and transfer
services. Each transfer form must be accompanied by such evidence (if any) as the
Registrar may require to prove the title of the transferor or the transferor’s right to
transfer the Note, and be signed by both the transferor and the transferee. The
transfer takes effect upon the transferee’s name being entered on the Register.
(b) Notes lodged in the Austraclear System will be transferable only in accordance with
the Austraclear Regulations.
12.2 Limit on Transfer
(a) Notes may only be transferred within, to or from Australia in the denominations
specified in the Pricing Supplement and if the consideration payable at the time of
transfer is a minimum amount of A$500,000 (in either case, disregarding moneys lent
by the transferor or its associates) or the transfer otherwise does not require
disclosure to investors in accordance with Part 6D.2 and Chapter 7 of the
Corporations Act.
(b) Notes may only be transferred between persons in a jurisdiction or jurisdictions other
than Australia if the transfer is in compliance with the laws of the jurisdiction in which
the transfer takes place and the transfer of the Notes otherwise does not require
disclosure to investors in accordance with the laws of the jurisdiction in which the
transfer takes place.
12.3 Partial Transfers
Where a transferor executes a transfer of less than all Notes registered in its name, and the
identity of the specific Notes to be transferred are not identified, the Registrar may register
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the transfer in respect of such of the Notes registered in the name of the transferor as the
Registrar thinks fit, provided the total Principal Amount of the Notes registered as having
been transferred equals the total Principal Amount of the Notes expressed to be transferred
in the transfer.
12.4 Closed Period
A transfer of a Note shall not be effective unless and until entered on the Register. The
Register will be closed for the purpose of determining entitlements to payments of interest
and repayments of any Principal Amount at 5:00 pm local Registry Office time on the Record
Date prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date, the relevant Maturity Date and any relevant
redemption date. Therefore, transfers must be received by the Registrar at the relevant
Registry Office prior to that time.
12.5 Stamp Duty
The Holder is responsible for any stamp duties or other similar taxes which are payable in
any jurisdiction in connection with any transfer, assignment or other dealing with the Notes.
12.6 Transmission
The Registrar must register a transfer of a Note to or by a person who is entitled to make or
receive the transfer in consequence of:
(a) death, bankruptcy, liquidation or winding-up of a Holder; or
(b) the making of a vesting order by a court or other body with power to make the order,
on receiving the evidence of entitlement that the Registrar or the Issuer requires.
12.7 Austraclear Services Limited as Registrar
If Austraclear Services Limited is the Registrar and Notes are lodged in the Austraclear
System, despite any other provision of those Conditions, these Notes are not transferable on
the Register, and the Issuer may not, and must procure that the Registrar does not, register
any transfer of those Notes issued by it and no member of the Austraclear System has the
right to request any registration of any transfer of the relevant Notes, except:
(a) for the purposes of any Conversion, Write-Off, repurchase, redemption or
cancellation (whether on or before the Maturity Date of the relevant Note) of the
relevant Note, a transfer of the relevant Note from Austraclear to the Issuer (or if
applicable, to an Approved NOHC in accordance with Condition10) may be entered
in the Register; and
(b) if Austraclear exercises or purports to exercise any power it may have under the
Austraclear Regulations from time to time for the Austraclear System or these
Conditions, to require the relevant Note to be transferred on the Register to a
member of the Austraclear System, the relevant Note may be transferred on the
Register from Austraclear to the member of the Austraclear System.
In any of these cases, the relevant Note will cease to be held in the Austraclear System.
13 Taxation
13.1 General
Subject as provided below, all payments of principal and interest in respect of the Notes shall
be made free and clear of, and without withholding or deduction for, any taxes, duties,
assessments or governmental charges of whatever nature imposed, levied, collected,
withheld or assessed by or within Australia or by any authority therein or thereof having
power to tax (together, “Taxes”), unless such withholding or deduction is required by law.
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13.2 Issuer to pay additional amounts
Where such withholding or deduction is required by law, the Issuer shall pay such additional
amounts to Holders as shall result in receipt by those Holders of such amounts as would
have been received by them had no such withholding or deduction been required, except that
no such additional amounts shall be payable with respect to any Note:
(a) in respect of which the Holder thereof is liable to such Taxes, duties, assessments or
governmental charges in respect of such Note by reason of its having some
connection with Australia, other than the mere holding of such Note or the receipt of
the relevant payment in respect thereof; or
(b) to the extent that the relevant Tax is imposed or levied by virtue of the Holder, or the
beneficial owner, of the Note not complying with any statutory requirements or not
having made a declaration of non-residence in, or lack of connection with, a relevant
jurisdiction or any similar claim for exemption; or
(c) in respect of which the Holder thereof is an Offshore Associate of the Issuer (acting
other than in the capacity of a clearing house, paying agent, custodian, funds
manager or responsible entity of a registered scheme within the meaning of the
Corporations Act); or
(d) in respect of which the Taxes have been imposed or levied as a result of the Holder
of such Note being party to or participating in a scheme to avoid such Taxes, being a
scheme which the Issuer was neither a party to nor participated in; or
(e) to, or to a third party on behalf of, an Australian resident Holder or a non-resident
Holder who is engaged in carrying on business in Australia at or through a
permanent establishment of the non-resident in Australia, if that person has not
supplied an appropriate tax file number, Australian business number or other
exemption details; or
(f) to a Holder that is not the beneficial owner of such Note to the extent that the
beneficial owner thereof would not have been entitled to the payment of such
additional amounts had such beneficial owner been the Holder of such Note.
13.3 Tax File Number
The Issuer will deduct tax from payments of interest on the Notes at the highest marginal tax
rate plus the highest Medicare levy if an Australian resident investor or a non-resident
investor carrying on business in Australia at or through a permanent establishment of the
non-resident in Australia has not supplied an appropriate tax file number, Australian Business
Number or exemption details.
13.4 References
References in these Conditions to (i) “principal” shall be deemed to include any premium
payable in respect of the Notes (other than Subordinated Notes for which there is no premium
payable), all Instalment Amounts, Final Redemption Amounts, Early Redemption Amounts,
Optional Redemption Amounts, Amortised Face Amounts and all other amounts in the nature
of principal payable pursuant to Condition 6, or any amendment or supplement to it, (ii)
“interest” shall be deemed to include all Interest Amounts and all other amounts payable
pursuant to Condition 4, or any amendment or supplement to it and (iii) “principal” and/or
“interest” shall be deemed to include any additional amounts that may be payable under this
Condition or any undertaking given in addition to or substitution for it under the Deed Poll.
Any additional amounts due in respect of the Subordinated Notes will be subordinated in right
of payment as described in Condition 3.2, Condition 5.16 and Condition 16.
If the Issuer is or becomes subject at any time to any taxing jurisdiction other than or in
addition to Australia, references in Condition 6.2 and Condition 13 shall be read and
construed as including references to such other taxing jurisdiction(s).
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13.5 FATCA
The Issuer or ANZGHL may withhold or make deductions from payments or from the issue of
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to a Noteholder where it is required to do so under or in
connection with FATCA, or where it has reasonable grounds to suspect that the Noteholder
or a beneficial owner of the Notes may be subject to FATCA, and may deal with such
payment, and any ANZGHL Ordinary Shares in accordance with FATCA. If any withholding or
deduction arises under or in connection with FATCA, neither the Issuer nor ANZGHL will be
required to pay any further amounts or issue any further ANZGHL Ordinary Shares on
account of such withholding or deduction or otherwise reimburse or compensate, or make
any payment to, a Noteholder or a beneficial owner of the Notes for or in respect of any such
withholding or deduction. A dealing with such payment and any ANZGHL Ordinary Shares in
accordance with FATCA satisfies the obligations of the Issuer (and, as applicable, ANZGHL)
to that Noteholder to the extent of the amount of that payment or issue of ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares.
14 Prescription
Claims against the Issuer for payment in respect of the Notes shall be prescribed and
become void unless made within ten years (in the case of principal) or five years (in the case
of interest) from the appropriate Relevant Date in respect of them.
15 Events of Default
15.1 Medium Term Notes
If any one of the following events (“Events of Default”) occurs and is continuing, the Holder
of any Medium Term Note of any Series may give written notice to the Registrar at its
Registry Office that such Medium Term Note is immediately repayable, whereupon it shall
immediately become due and repayable at its Early Redemption Amount together with
accrued interest to the date of payment unless, prior to the date that such written notice is
received by the Registrar, the Issuer shall have cured or otherwise made good all Events of
Default in respect of the Medium Term Notes of such Series:
(a) default is made in the payment of:
(i) any principal or Final Redemption Amount, Early Redemption Amount,
Optional Redemption Amount, Instalment Amount or Amortised Face
Amount (in the case of a Zero Coupon Note) (whether becoming due upon
redemption or otherwise) when due, in respect of any Medium Term Note of
such Series, and such default continues for a period of 15 days; or
(ii) any interest when due, in respect of any Medium Term Note of such Series,
and such default continues for a period of 30 days; or
(b) the Issuer fails to perform or observe any of its obligations under any Medium Term
Note of such Series other than those specified in paragraph (a) above and in such
case (except where such failure is incapable of remedy) such failure continues for a
period of 30 days next following the service by any Holder of any Medium Term Note
of such Series on the Issuer of written notice requiring the same to be remedied; or
(c) otherwise than for the purpose of an amalgamation or reconstruction or merger within
the meaning of these words under the laws of Australia, a resolution is passed that
the Issuer be wound up or dissolved; or
(d) the Issuer stops payment (within the meaning of Australian or any other applicable
bankruptcy law) of its obligations; or
(e) an encumbrancer takes possession of or a receiver is appointed of the whole or a
substantial part of the undertaking and assets of the Issuer and any such event is
continuing for 45 days after its occurrence and would materially prejudice the
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performance by the Issuer of its obligations under the Medium Term Notes of such
Series or a distress or execution is levied or enforced upon or sued out against the
whole or a substantial part of the undertaking and assets of the Issuer which would
materially prejudice the performance of the Issuer of its obligations under the Medium
Term Notes of such Series and is not discharged within 60 days thereof; or
(f) proceedings shall have been initiated against the Issuer under any applicable
bankruptcy, reorganisation or other similar law and such proceedings shall not have
been discharged or stayed within a period of 60 days; or
(g) the Issuer shall initiate or consent to proceedings relating to itself under any
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, composition or other similar law (otherwise than
for the purpose of amalgamation, reconstruction or merger (within the meaning of
those words under the laws of Australia)) and such proceedings would materially
prejudice the performance by the Issuer of its obligations under the Medium Term
Notes of such Series.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Condition 15.1, no Event of Default in respect of
any Medium Term Note shall occur solely on account of any failure by the Issuer to perform
or observe its obligations in relation to, or the taking of any process or proceeding in respect
of any share, note or other security or instrument constituting Tier 1 Capital or Tier 2 Capital.
15.2 Subordinated Notes
The following are Events of Default with respect to Subordinated Notes:
(a) The:
(i) making of an order by a court of the State of Victoria, Australia or a court
with appellate jurisdiction from such court which is not successfully appealed
or permanently stayed within 60 days of the entry of such order; or
(ii) valid passing by the Issuer's shareholders of an effective resolution,
in each case for the winding-up of the Issuer (other than under or in connection with
a scheme of amalgamation or reconstruction not involving bankruptcy or insolvency);
and
(b) Subject to Condition 5.16:
(i) default in the payment of interest on any Subordinated Note when due,
continued for 30 days; or
(ii) default in the payment of principal of any Subordinated Note when due.
Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default specified in paragraph (a) above, subject
to the subordination provisions, the Principal Amount of, and all accrued and unpaid
interest on, the Subordinated Notes will automatically become due and payable.
If an Event of Default contemplated by paragraph (b) above with respect to any
Subordinated Notes occurs and is continuing, a Subordinated Noteholder may only,
in order to enforce the obligations of the Issuer under such Subordinated Notes:
(A) notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (B) below, institute
proceedings in the State of Victoria, Australia (but not elsewhere) for
the winding-up of the Issuer (all subject to, and in accordance with,
the terms of Condition 16); or
(B) institute proceedings for recovery of the money then due, provided
that the Issuer will not, by virtue of the institution of any such
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proceedings (other than proceedings for the winding-up of the
Issuer) be obliged to pay any sums representing principal or interest
in respect of the Subordinated Notes sooner than the same would
otherwise have been payable by it and provided that the Issuer is
Solvent at the time of, and will be Solvent immediately after, any
such payment.
No remedy against the Issuer other than those referred to in this Condition 15.2, shall be
available to the Subordinated Noteholders, whether for the recovery of amounts owing in
respect of the Subordinated Notes or in respect of any breach by the issuer of any of its other
obligations under or in respect of the Subordinated Notes.
15.3 Notification
If an Event of Default occurs under Conditions 15.1 or 15.2 above, the Issuer will promptly
after becoming aware of it notify the Registrar of the occurrence of the Event of Default
specifying details of it and use its reasonable endeavours to procure that the Registrar
promptly notifies the Holders of the occurrence of the Event of Default by registered post to
the address of the Holders recorded in the Register.
16 Subordination
In the event of the winding-up of the Issuer constituting an Event of Default with respect to the
Subordinated Notes, there shall be payable with respect to the Subordinated Notes, subject
to the subordination provisions discussed above (see Condition 3.2 and Condition 5.16), an
amount equal to the Principal Amount of the Subordinated Notes then outstanding, together
with all accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the repayment date.
As a result of the subordination provisions, no amount will be payable in the winding-up of the
Issuer in Australia in respect of the Subordinated Notes until all claims of Senior Creditors
admitted in the winding-up proceeding have been satisfied in full. By subscription for, or
transfer of, Subordinated Notes to a Subordinated Noteholder, that Subordinated Noteholder
will be taken to have agreed that no amount in respect of the Subordinated Notes will be
repaid until all the claims of the Senior Creditors admitted in the winding-up proceeding have
been satisfied accordingly. Accordingly, if proceedings with respect to the winding-up of the
Issuer in Australia were to occur, the Subordinated Noteholders could recover less relative to
the holders of deposit liabilities, the holders of Medium Term Notes and the holders of prior
ranking subordinated liabilities of the Issuer.
If in any such winding-up, the amount payable with respect to the Subordinated Notes and
any claims ranking equally with those Subordinated Notes cannot be paid in full, those
Subordinated Notes and other claims ranking equally with those Subordinated Notes will
share relatively in any distribution of the Issuer's assets in a winding-up in proportion to the
respective amounts to which they are entitled.
Any amount not paid due to Condition 5.16 or Condition 15.2, remains a debt owing to the
Noteholder by the Issuer until it is paid and will be payable on the first date on which payment
can be made in compliance with the relevant Condition.
17 Meetings of Holders, Modifications and Waiver
17.1 Meetings of Holders
Meetings of Holders may be convened in accordance with the Meeting Provisions contained
in Schedule 2 to the Deed Poll. Any such meeting may consider any matters affecting the
interests of Holders, including, without limitation, the variation of the terms of the Notes by the
Issuer and the granting of approvals, consents and waivers, and the declaration of an Event
of Default.
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17.2 Modification of the Deed Poll
Subject to Condition 17.3:
(a) the Deed Poll or the terms of any Series of Notes may be amended by the Issuer,
without the consent of any Holder, if in the opinion of the Issuer, the amendment:
(i) is necessary or advisable to comply with any law;
(ii) is necessary to correct an obvious error or omission, or is otherwise of a
formal, minor, technical or administrative nature only;
(iii) is made for the purpose of curing any ambiguity or of curing, correcting or
supplementing any defective provision;
(iv) is not materially prejudicial to the rights of Holders generally; or
(v) only applies to Notes issued by the Issuer after the date of the amendment;
and
(b) in all other circumstances, the Deed Poll or the terms of any Series of Notes may be
amended with the approval of Holders by an Extraordinary Resolution. The Issuer
will notify the Registrar of any amendments made pursuant to this Condition and will
use its reasonable endeavours to procure that the Registrar notifies the Holders of
the amendment by post to the address of the Holders recorded in the Register.
In the case of an amendment to the terms of any Series of Notes, reference in this Condition
17.2 to “Holders” are to be taken to refer to the Holders of that Series of Notes.
17.3 No changes which may affect Tier 2 Capital eligibility
The prior written approval of APRA is required in respect of any modification, abrogation,
variation, amendment, waiver or compromise in respect of the terms of any Series of
Subordinated Notes or the Deed Poll where such modification, abrogation, variation,
amendment, waiver or compromise may affect the eligibility of any Series of Subordinated
Notes as Tier 2 Capital.
18 Further Issues of Notes
The Issuer may from time to time without the consent of the Holders create and issue further
securities either having the same terms and conditions as the Notes in all respects (or in all
respects except for the Issue Date or first payment of interest on them) and so that such
further issue of securities shall be consolidated and form a single Series with the outstanding
Notes of any Series or upon such terms as the Issuer may determine at the time of their
issue. References in these Conditions to the Notes include (unless the context requires
otherwise) any other securities issued pursuant to this Condition and forming a single Series
with the Notes.
19 Notices
19.1 To Holders
All notices by the Issuer to Holders must be in writing and may be:
(a) posted by ordinary mail to the relevant Holder at its address appearing on the
Register (or in the case of joint Holders to the first named) and, if so, shall be
deemed to have been given on the sixth Business Day after posting if posted to an
address in Australia and on the tenth Business Day if posted to an address outside of
Australia; or
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(b) given by the Issuer publishing the notice on its website and announcing the
publication of the notice to ASX and shall be deemed to have been given when the
announcement is made on ASX.
19.2 To the Issuer and Registrar
All notices by a Holder to the Issuer and Registrar will be valid if posted by ordinary mail to
the Issuer and the Registrar at their addresses specified above. Unless a later time is
specified in it, a notice by a Holder takes effect from the time it is received by the Issuer or
Registrar except that if it is received after 5.00pm in the place of receipt or not on a Business
Day, it is to be taken to be received at 9.00am on the next succeeding Business Day in that
place.
20 Governing Law
The Notes are governed by the laws in force in the State of Victoria and Australia.
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Schedule to the Conditions of the Notes
1 Conversion
If ANZGHL must Convert a Principal Amount of a Subordinated Note in accordance with the
Conditions, then, subject to this Schedule and Condition 10.2 and unless the Pricing
Supplement specifies that the Alternative Conversion Number applies, the following
provisions apply (provided, in all cases, that where a Subordinated Note is required to be
Converted only in part, references in this Schedule to the "Subordinated Note" shall be taken
to be references to the "Affected Subordinated Note" as defined in Condition 7.4(b)):
(a) the Subordinated Note will be automatically transferred free from any encumbrance
to ANZGHL on the Trigger Event Date;
(b) ANZGHL will allot and issue on the Trigger Event Date a number of ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares in respect of the Principal Amount of that Subordinated Note equal
to the “Conversion Number”, where the Conversion Number (but subject to the
Conversion Number being no more than the Maximum Conversion Number) is a
number calculated according to the following formula:
Conversion Number =
Principal Amount
((1- CD) × VWAP)
where:
“CD” means the conversion discount specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement;
“VWAP” (expressed in dollars and cents) means the VWAP during the VWAP Period
and where the “Maximum Conversion Number” means a number calculated
according to the following formula:
Maximum Conversion Number =
Principal Amount
Issue Date VWAP × 0.2
(c) on the Trigger Event Date the rights of each Subordinated Noteholder (including to
payment of interest with respect to such Principal Amount, both in the future and as
accrued but unpaid as at the Trigger Event Date) in relation to each Subordinated
Note or portion thereof that is being Converted will be automatically transferred for an
amount equal to the Principal Amount of that Subordinated Note that is being
Converted and that Principal Amount will be applied in accordance with the Deed of
Undertaking by way of payment for subscription for the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to
be allotted and issued under Section 1(b) of this Schedule and the Deed of
Undertaking. Each Subordinated Noteholder is taken to have irrevocably directed
that any amount payable under Section 1 of this Schedule is to be applied as
provided for in Section 1 of this Schedule and no Subordinated Noteholder has any
right to payment in any other way;
(d) any calculation under Section 1(b) of this Schedule shall be, unless the context
requires otherwise, be rounded to four decimal places provided that if the total
number of additional ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to be allotted to a Subordinated
Noteholder in respect of the aggregate Principal Amount of the Subordinated Notes it
holds which is being Converted includes a fraction of an ANZGHL Ordinary Share,
that fraction of an ANZGHL Ordinary Share will be disregarded;
(e) the rights attaching to ANZGHL Ordinary Shares issued as a result of Conversion do
not take effect until 5.00pm (Melbourne, Australia time) on the Trigger Event Date
(unless another time is required for Conversion on that date). At that time all other
rights conferred or restrictions imposed on that Subordinated Note under the
Conditions will no longer have effect to the extent of the Principal Amount of that
Subordinated Note being Converted (except for the right to receive the ANZGHL
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Ordinary Shares as set forth in Section 1 of this Schedule and Condition 8 and
except for rights relating to interest which is payable but has not been paid on or
before the Trigger Event Date which will continue); and
(f) under the arrangements as agreed between, amongst others, ANZGHL and the
Issuer and relevant members of the ANZ Group, deal with the Subordinated Notes
being Converted so that they are converted into ANZBGL Ordinary Shares and
terminated (the "Related Conversion Steps").
2 Adjustments to VWAP
For the purposes of calculating VWAP in the Conditions:
(a) where, on some or all of the Business Days in the relevant VWAP Period, ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares have been quoted on the Australian Securities Exchange as cum
dividend or cum any other distribution or entitlement and the relevant Principal
Amount of Subordinated Notes will Convert into ANZGHL Ordinary Shares after the
date those ANZGHL Ordinary Shares no longer carry that dividend or any other
distribution or entitlement, then the VWAP on the Business Days on which those
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares have been quoted cum dividend or cum any other
distribution or entitlement shall be reduced by an amount ("Cum Value") equal to:
(i) (in case of a dividend or other distribution), the amount of that dividend or
other distribution including, if the dividend or other distribution is franked, the
amount that would be included in the assessable income of a recipient of the
dividend or other distribution who is both a resident of Australia and a natural
person under the Tax Act;
(ii) (in the case of any other entitlement that is not a dividend or other
distribution under Section 2(a)(i) of this Schedule which is traded on the
Australian Securities Exchange on any of those Business Days), the volume
weighted average sale price of all such entitlements sold on the Australian
Securities Exchange during the VWAP Period on the Business Days on
which those entitlements were traded; or
(iii) (in the case of any other entitlement which is not traded on the Australian
Securities Exchange during the VWAP Period), the value of the entitlement
as reasonably determined by the directors of ANZGHL; and
(b) where, on some or all of the Business Days in the VWAP Period, ANZGHL Ordinary
Shares have been quoted on the Australian Securities Exchange as ex dividend or
ex any other distribution or entitlement, and the relevant Principal Amount of
Subordinated Notes will Convert into ANZGHL Ordinary Shares which would be
entitled to receive the relevant dividend or other distribution or entitlement, the VWAP
on the Business Days on which those ANZGHL Ordinary Shares have been quoted
ex dividend or ex any other distribution or entitlement shall be increased by the Cum
Value.
3 Adjustments to VWAP for divisions and similar transactions
(a) Where during the relevant VWAP Period there is a change in the number of the
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares on issue as a result of a division, consolidation or
reclassification of ANZGHL’s share capital (not involving any cash payment or other
distribution (or compensation) to or by holders of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares) (a
"Reorganisation"), in calculating the VWAP for that VWAP Period the daily VWAP
applicable on each day in the relevant VWAP Period which falls before the date on
which trading in ANZGHL Ordinary Shares is conducted on a post Reorganisation
basis shall be adjusted by multiplying such daily VWAP by the following formula:
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A
B
where:
A means the aggregate number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares immediately before the
Reorganisation; and
B means the aggregate number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares immediately after the
Reorganisation.
(b) Any adjustment made in accordance with Section 3(a) of this Schedule will, absent
manifest error, be effective and binding on Subordinated Noteholders under these
Conditions and these Conditions will be construed accordingly. Any such adjustment
must be promptly notified to all Subordinated Noteholders.
4 Adjustments to Issue Date VWAP
For the purposes of determining the Issue Date VWAP, corresponding adjustments to VWAP
will be made in accordance with Section 2 and Section 3 of this Schedule during the 20
Business Day period over which VWAP is calculated for the purposes of determining the
Issue Date VWAP. On and from the Issue Date adjustments to the Issue Date VWAP:
(a) may be made in accordance with Sections 5 to 7 of this Schedule (inclusive); and
(b) if so made, will cause an adjustment to the Maximum Conversion Number.
5 Adjustments to Issue Date VWAP for bonus issues
(a) Subject to Section 5(b) of this Schedule below, if at any time after the Issue Date
ANZGHL makes a pro rata bonus issue of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to holders of
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares generally, the Issue Date VWAP will be adjusted
immediately in accordance with the following formula:
V = V
o
x
RD
RD + RN
where:
V means the Issue Date VWAP applying immediately after the application of this
formula;
V
o
means the Issue Date VWAP applying immediately prior to the application of this
formula;
RN means the number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares issued pursuant to the bonus
issue; and
RD means the number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares on issue immediately prior to the
allotment of new ANZGHL Ordinary Shares pursuant to the bonus issue.
(b) Section 5(a) of this Schedule does not apply to ANZGHL Ordinary Shares issued as
part of a bonus share plan, employee or executive share plan, executive option plan,
share top up plan, share purchase plan or a dividend reinvestment plan.
(c) For the purpose of Section 5(a) of this Schedule, an issue will be regarded as a pro
rata issue notwithstanding that ANZGHL does not make offers to some or all holders
of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares with registered addresses outside Australia, provided
that in so doing ANZGHL is not in contravention of the ASX Listing Rules.
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(d) No adjustments to the Issue Date VWAP will be made under this Section 5 of this
Schedule for any offer of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares not covered by Section 5(a) of
this Schedule, including a rights issue or other essentially pro rata issue.
(e) The fact that no adjustment is made for an issue of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares except
as covered by Section 5(a) of this Schedule shall not in any way restrict ANZGHL
from issuing ANZGHL Ordinary Shares at any time on such terms as it sees fit nor
require any consent or concurrence of any Subordinated Noteholders.
6 Adjustment to Issue Date VWAP for divisions and similar
transactions
(a) If at any time after the Issue Date, a Reorganisation occurs, the Issuer shall adjust
the Issue Date VWAP by multiplying the Issue Date VWAP applicable on the
Business Day immediately before the date of any such Reorganisation by the
following formula:
A
B
where:
A means the aggregate number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares immediately before
the Reorganisation; and
B means the aggregate number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares immediately after the
Reorganisation.
(b) Any adjustment made by the Issuer in accordance with Section 6(a) of this
Schedule will, absent manifest error, be effective and binding on Subordinated
Noteholders under these Conditions and these Conditions will be construed
accordingly.
(c) Each Subordinated Noteholder acknowledges that the Issuer may, consolidate,
divide or reclassify securities so that there is a lesser or greater number of ANZGHL
Ordinary Shares at any time in its absolute discretion without any such action
requiring any consent or concurrence of any Subordinated Noteholders.
7 No adjustment to Issue Date VWAP in certain circumstances
Despite the provisions of Section 5 and Section 6 of this Schedule, no adjustment shall be
made to the Issue Date VWAP where such adjustment (rounded if applicable) would be less
than one per cent. of the Issue Date VWAP then in effect.
8 Announcement of adjustment to Issue Date VWAP
The Issuer will notify Subordinated Noteholders of any adjustment to the Issue Date VWAP
under this Schedule within ten Business Days of the Issuer determining the adjustment and
the adjustment set out in the announcement will be final and binding.
9 ANZGHL Ordinary Shares
Each ANZGHL Ordinary Share issued or arising upon Conversion ranks pari passu with all
other fully paid ANZGHL Ordinary Shares. The Subordinated Noteholders agree not to trade
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares issued on Conversion (except as permitted by the Corporations
Act, other applicable laws and the ASX Listing Rules) until ANZGHL has taken such steps as
are required by the Corporations Act, other applicable laws and the ASX Listing Rules for the
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares to be freely tradeable without such further disclosure or other
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action and agree to allow ANZGHL to impose a holding lock or to refuse to register a transfer
in respect of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares until such time.
10 Listing ANZGHL Ordinary Shares issued on Conversion
ANZGHL shall use all reasonable endeavours to list the ANZGHL Ordinary Shares issued
upon Conversion of the Subordinated Notes on the Australian Securities Exchange.
11 Alternative Conversion Number
If the Issuer must Convert a Principal Amount of a Subordinated Note in accordance with the
Conditions and the Pricing Supplement specifies that the Alternative Conversion Number
applies, then:
(a) Section 1 of this Schedule applies on the basis that the Conversion Number for the
purposes of Section 1(b) of this Schedule is the number of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares
specified in the Pricing Supplement as the Alternative Conversion Number (subject to
the Alternative Conversion Number being no more than the Maximum Conversion
Number as determined in accordance with Section 1(b) of this Schedule); and
(b) Sections 2 to 8 (inclusive) of this Schedule do not apply to the Alternative Conversion
Number.
12 Definitions
For the purposes of this Schedule the following terms shall have the following meanings:
Affected Subordinated Note has the meaning given in Condition 7.4(b).
Cum Value has the meaning given in Section 2 of this Schedule.
Issue Date VWAP means, in respect of Subordinated Notes of a Series, the VWAP during
the period of 20 Business Days on which trading in ANZGHL Ordinary Shares took place
immediately preceding (but not including) the first date on which any Subordinated Notes of
that Series were issued, as adjusted in accordance with Sections 4 to 7 (inclusive) of this
Schedule.
Reorganisation has the meaning given in Section 3 of this Schedule.
Tax Act means:
(a) the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 of Australia or the Income Tax Assessment
Act 1997 of Australia as the case may be and a reference to any section of the
Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 of Australia includes a reference to that section as
rewritten in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 of Australia; and
(b) any other Act setting the rate of income tax payable and any regulation promulgated
under it.
VWAP means, subject to any adjustments under this Schedule, the average of the daily
volume weighted average sale prices (such average being rounded to the nearest full cent) of
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares sold on the Australian Securities Exchange during the VWAP
Period or on the relevant days and where the currency of the Principal Amount in respect of
the Subordinated Note is not Australian Dollars, with each such daily price converted into the
Specified Currency on the basis of the spot rate of exchange for the sale of Australian Dollars
against the purchase of the relevant Specified Currency in the Sydney foreign exchange
market quoted by any leading bank selected by the Issuer on the relevant calculation date,
but does not include any Crossing transacted outside the Open Session State or any Special
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Crossing transacted at any time, each as defined in the ASX Operating Rules, or any
overseas trades or trades pursuant to the exercise of options over ANZGHL Ordinary Shares;
VWAP Period means the period of five Business Days or such other period specified in the
applicable Pricing Supplement on which trading in ANZGHL Ordinary Shares took place
immediately preceding (but not including) the Trigger Event Date.
13 Interpretation
In respect of ANZGHL Ordinary Shares, if the principal securities exchange on which the
ANZGHL Ordinary Shares are listed becomes other than the Australian Securities Exchange,
unless the context otherwise requires a reference to the Australian Securities Exchange shall
be read as a reference to that principal securities exchange and a reference to the ASX Listing
Rules, the ASX Operating Rules or any term defined in any such rules, shall be read as a
reference to the corresponding rules of that exchange or corresponding defined terms in such
rules (as the case may be).
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SCHEDULE 2
PROVISIONS FOR MEETINGS OF HOLDERS
Interpretation
1. In this Schedule:
(a) references to a meeting are to a meeting of Holders of a single Series of Notes
and include:
(i) if there is only one Holder, the attendance of that person or its
agent on the day and at the place and time specified in
accordance with these provisions;
(ii) the presence of persons physically at a single venue;
(iii) the presence of persons at two or more venues using any
technology that gives Holders as a whole a reasonable
opportunity to participate, including, without limitation, by
conference telephone call video conference or any electronic,
online or virtual platform; and
(iv) unless the context otherwise requires, any adjournment;
(b) references to the place of a meeting shall be taken to include any applicable
electronic, online or virtual platform;
(c) a reference to the signing or execution of any document includes signing or
execution by electronic means;
(d) references to Notes are only to the Notes of the Series in respect of which a
meeting has been, or is to be, called, and references to Holders are to the
holders of those Notes, respectively;
(e) agent means a proxy for, or representative of, a Holder;
(f) Extraordinary Resolution means a resolution passed at a meeting duly
convened and held in accordance with this Deed by a majority of at least
75 per cent of the votes cast;
(g) Ordinary Resolution means a resolution passed at a meeting duly convened
and held in accordance with this Deed by a clear majority of the votes cast;
and
(h) references to persons representing a proportion of the Notes are to Holders or
agents holding or representing in aggregate at least that proportion in
Principal Amount of the Notes for the time being outstanding.
Powers of Meetings
2. A meeting shall, subject to the Conditions and without prejudice to any powers
conferred on other persons by this Deed, have power by Extraordinary Resolution:
(a) to sanction any proposal by the Issuer or any modification, abrogation,
variation, amendment, waiver or compromise of, or arrangement in respect
of, the rights of the Holders in their capacity as Holders against the Issuer,
whether or not those rights arise under the Notes;
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(b) to sanction any proposal by the Issuer for the exchange or substitution for the
Notes of, or the conversion of the Notes into, shares, bonds or other
obligations or securities of the Issuer or any other entity;
(c) to assent to any modification, abrogation, variation, amendment, waiver or
compromise of this Deed or the Notes proposed by the Issuer or any other
entity;
(d) to authorise anyone to concur in and do anything necessary to carry out and
give effect to an Extraordinary Resolution;
(e) to give any authority, direction or sanction required to be given by
Extraordinary Resolution;
(f) to appoint any persons (whether Holders or not) as a committee or
committees to represent the Holders’ interests and to confer on them any
powers or discretions which the Holders could themselves exercise by
Extraordinary Resolution; and
(g) to approve the substitution of any entity for the Issuer (or any previous
substitute) as principal debtor under this Deed,
provided that the provisions relating to quorum contained in paragraph 11 will apply
to any resolution for the purpose of subparagraphs 2(a) to (g), or any amendment to
this proviso and provided further that the prior written approval of APRA is obtained
in respect of a Series of Subordinated Notes if required pursuant to Condition 5.4, 5.6
or 17.3 or if the exercise of power (whether by Extraordinary Resolution or
otherwise) may affect the eligibility of a Series of Subordinated Notes as Tier 2
Capital.
Convening a Meeting
3. The Issuer may at any time convene a meeting. If the Issuer receives a written
request by Holders holding at least 10 per cent of the aggregate Principal Amount of
the Notes of any Series for the time being outstanding and is indemnified to its
satisfaction against all costs and expenses, the Issuer shall convene a meeting of the
Holders of that Series. Every meeting shall be held at a time and place approved by
the Issuer and shall use such technology as the Issuer deems fit to give Holders as a
whole a reasonable opportunity to participate.
4. At least 21 days’ notice (exclusive of the day on which the notice is given and of the
day of the meeting) shall be given to the Holders. A copy of the notice shall be given
by the party convening the meeting to the other parties. The notice shall specify the
day, time and place of meeting and the nature of the resolutions to be proposed and
shall explain how Holders may appoint proxies or representatives and the details of
the time limits applicable.
Arrangements for Voting
5. A Holder may, by an instrument in writing (which may be electronic if the Issuer
deems fit) in the form available from the Registrar in the English language executed
by or on behalf of the Holder and delivered to the Registrar at least 24 hours before
the time fixed for a meeting, appoint any person (a proxy) to act on his behalf in
connection with that meeting. A proxy need not be a Holder.
6. A corporation which is the Holder of a Note may, by delivering to the Registrar at
least 24 hours before the time fixed for a meeting a certified copy of a resolution
executed under its common seal, executed in accordance with Section 127(1) of the
Corporations Act or signed on its behalf by its duly appointed attorney or a person
authorised under Section 250D of the Corporations Act to act as the corporation’s
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representative at the meeting (with, if it is not in English, a certified translation into
English), authorise any person to act as its representative (a representative) in
connection with that meeting.
7. Any vote cast at a meeting by a proxy or a representative appointed by Holders in
accordance with paragraphs 5 or 6 above is valid despite any previous revocation or
amendment of the appointment of the proxy or representative (as applicable) or any of
the relevant Holder’s instructions pursuant to which the form referred to in
paragraph 5 was executed unless written notice of such revocation or amendment is
received from the relevant Holder by the Registrar in each case at least 24 hours
before the time fixed for the meeting.
Chairman
8. The chairman of a meeting shall be such person as the Issuer may nominate in
writing, but if no such nomination is made or if the person nominated is not present
within 15 minutes after the time fixed for the meeting the Holders or agents present
shall choose one of their number to be chairman, failing which the Issuer may appoint
a chairman. The chairman need not be a Holder or agent. The chairman of an
adjourned meeting need not be the same person as the chairman of the original
meeting.
Attendance
9. The following may attend and speak at a meeting:
(a) Holders and agents;
(b) the chairman;
(c) the Issuer and the Registrar (through their respective representatives) and
their respective financial and legal advisers; and
(d) the dealers (if any).
No one else may attend or speak.
Quorum and Adjournment
10. No business (except choosing a chairman) shall be transacted at a meeting unless a
quorum is present at the commencement of business. If a quorum is not present
within 15 minutes from the time initially fixed for the meeting, it shall, if convened
on the requisition of Holders, be dissolved. In any other case it shall be adjourned
until such date, not less than 14 nor more than 42 days later, and time and place as the
chairman may decide. If a quorum is not present within 15 minutes from the time
fixed for a meeting so adjourned, the meeting shall be dissolved.
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11. Two or more Holders or agents present in person shall be a quorum:
(a) in the cases marked ‘No minimum proportion’ in the table below, whatever
the proportion of the Notes which they represent; and
(b) in any other case, only if they represent the proportion of the Notes shown by
the table below.
Purpose of meeting Required proportion of the Notes
outstanding
Any meeting except
one referred to in
next column
Meeting previously
adjourned through
want of a quorum
To pass a resolution in connection with
the matters listed in paragraph 2 of this
Schedule
A clear majority 33 per cent
Any other purpose A clear majority No minimum
proportion
12. The chairman may with the consent of (and shall if directed by) a meeting adjourn the
meeting from time to time and from place to place. Only business which could have
been transacted the original meeting may be transacted at a meeting adjourned in
accordance with this paragraph or paragraph 10.
13. At least 10 days’ notice of a meeting adjourned through want of a quorum shall be
given in the same manner as for an original meeting and that notice shall state the
quorum required at the adjourned meeting. No notice need, however, otherwise be
given of an adjourned meeting.
Voting
14. Each question submitted to a meeting shall be decided by a show of hands unless a
poll is (before, or on the declaration of the result of, the show of hands) demanded by
the chairman, the Issuer or one or more persons representing 2 per cent of the Notes.
15. Unless a poll is demanded a declaration by the chairman that a resolution has or has
not been passed shall be conclusive evidence of the fact without proof of the number
or proportion of the votes cast in favour of or against it.
16. If a poll is demanded, it shall be taken in such manner and (subject as provided
below) either at once or after such adjournment as the chairman directs. The result of
the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting at which it was demanded
as at the date it was taken. A demand for a poll shall not prevent the meeting
continuing for the transaction of business other than the question on which it has been
demanded.
17. A poll demanded on the election of a chairman or on a question of adjournment shall
be taken at once.
18. A Holder or, in the case of a Note registered as being owned jointly, the person whose
name appears first on the Register as one of the owners of the Note, is entitled to vote
in respect of the Note either in person or by proxy.
19. Subject to paragraph 18, on a show of hands every person who is present in person
and is a Holder or is a proxy or representative has one vote. On a poll every such
person has one vote in respect of each proportion of the Principal Amount of the
Notes equal to the minimum denomination of such Series of Notes registered in that
person’s name or in respect of which that person is a proxy or representative.
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Without prejudice to the obligations of proxies, a person entitled to more than one
vote need not use them all or cast them all in the same way.
20. In case of equality of votes the chairman shall both on a show of hands and on a poll
have a casting vote in addition to any other votes which he may have.
Use of Ordinary Resolution
21. The Holders have the power by Ordinary Resolution to do anything for which an
Extraordinary Resolution is not required.
Effect and Publication of an Extraordinary Resolution
22. An Extraordinary Resolution or Ordinary Resolution shall be binding on all the
Holders, whether or not present at the meeting and each of them shall be bound to
give effect to it accordingly. The passing of such a resolution shall be conclusive
evidence that the circumstances justify its being passed. The Issuer shall give notice
of the passing of an Extraordinary Resolution or Ordinary Resolution to Holders
within 14 days but failure to do so shall not invalidate the resolution.
Resolutions in writing
23. A resolution is passed:
(a) if it is an Ordinary Resolution, where within one month from the Notification
Date, Holders representing a clear majority of the aggregate Principal
Amount of outstanding Notes of any Series as at the Notification Date have
signed the resolution; or
(b) if it is an Extraordinary Resolution, where within one month from the
Notification Date, Holders representing at least 75% of the aggregate
Principal Amount of outstanding Notes of any Series as at the Notification
Date have signed the resolution,
and any such resolution is deemed to have been passed on the date on which the last
Holder whose signature on the resolution caused it to be so passed signed it (as
evidenced on its face). For the purpose of this paragraph, Notification Date means
the date stated in the copies of the resolutions to be made in writing sent for that
purpose to the Holders, which must be no later than the date on which the resolution
is first notified to Holders.
24. The accidental omission to give a copy of the resolution to, or the non-receipt of such
a copy by, any Holder does not invalidate a resolution in writing made pursuant to
paragraph 23.
25. A resolution in writing signed by Holders may be contained in one document or in
several documents in like form each signed by one or more Holders.
Minutes
26. The Registrar must keep minutes of the proceedings of every meeting of Holders.
Minutes shall be made of all resolutions and proceedings at every meeting and, if
purporting to be signed by the chairman of that meeting or of the next succeeding
meeting, shall be conclusive evidence of the matters in them. Until the contrary is
proved, every meeting for which minutes have been so made and signed shall be
deemed to have been duly convened and held and all resolutions passed or
proceedings transacted at it to have been duly passed and transacted.
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Austraclear
27. If Notes of any Series are lodged in the Austraclear System, all dealings (including
the convening and holding of meetings) in relation to those Notes within the
Austraclear System will be governed by the Austraclear Regulations and need not
comply with these Meeting Provisions to the extent of any inconsistency.
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