and
unconditionally and irrevocably guaranteed as to payments of interest and principal by SCOTIABANK COVERED BOND GUARANTOR LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
(a limited partnership established in the Province of Ontario)
(the “Guarantor”) Series No. []
This Global Covered Bond in bearer form (a “Bearer Global Covered Bond”) is a Permanent Global Covered Bond in respect of a duly authorized issue of Covered Bonds of the Issuer (the
“Covered Bonds”) of the aggregate nominal amount, Specified Currency(ies) and Specified Denomination(s) as are specified in the Final Terms Document applicable to the Covered Bonds (the “Final Terms Document”), a copy of which is annexed hereto, and which are constituted by a Trust Deed (as defined below). References herein to the “Conditions” will be to the Terms and Conditions of the Covered Bonds as set out in Schedule 1 (Terms and Conditions of the Covered Bonds) to the Trust Deed (as defined below) as supplemented, replaced and modified by the Final Terms Document but, in the event of any conflict between the provisions of the said
Conditions and the information in the Final Terms Document, the Final Terms Document will prevail.
Words and expressions defined in the Conditions will bear the same meanings when used in this Bearer Global Covered Bond.
This Bearer Global Covered Bond is issued subject to, and with the benefit of, the Conditions and a Second Amended and Restated Trust Deed (such Trust Deed as modified and/or supplemented and/or restated from time to time, the “Trust Deed”) dated as of December 4, 2014 and made between the Issuer, the Guarantor, and Computershare Trust Company of Canada in its capacity as Bond Trustee.
If the Final Terms Document indicates that this Covered Bond is intended to be a New Global Covered Bond, the Principal Amount Outstanding of Covered Bonds represented by this Bearer Global Covered Bond will be the aggregate amount from time to time entered in the records of both Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V. (“Euroclear”) and Clearstream Banking, société anonyme (“Clearstream, Luxembourg” and together with Euroclear, the “relevant Clearing Systems”).
The records of the relevant Clearing Systems (which expression in this Bearer Global Covered Bond means the records that each relevant Clearing System holds for its customers which reflect the amount of each such customer's interest in the Covered Bonds) will be conclusive evidence of the Principal Amount Outstanding of Covered Bonds represented by this Bearer Global Covered Bond and, for these purposes, a statement issued by a relevant Clearing System (which statement will be made available to the bearer upon request) stating the Principal Amount Outstanding of Covered Bonds represented by this Bearer Global Covered Bond at any time will be conclusive evidence of the records of the relevant Clearing System at that time.
If the Final Terms Document indicates that this Global Covered Bond is not intended to be a New Global Covered Bond, the Principal Amount Outstanding of the Covered Bonds represented by this Bearer Global Covered Bond will be the amount stated in the applicable Final Terms Document or, if lower, the Principal Amount Outstanding most recently entered by or on behalf of the Issuer in the relevant column in Part II or III of Schedule One hereto or in Schedule Two hereto.
For value received, the Issuer, subject to and in accordance with the Conditions and the Trust Deed, promises to pay to the bearer hereof on the Final Maturity Date and/or on such earlier date(s) as all or any of the Covered Bonds represented by this Bearer Global Covered Bond may become due and repayable in accordance with the Conditions and the Trust Deed, the amount payable under the Conditions in respect of such Covered Bonds on each such date and to pay interest (if any) on the Principal Amount Outstanding of the Covered Bonds from time to time represented by this Bearer Global Covered Bond calculated and payable as provided in the Conditions and the Trust Deed together with any other sums payable under the Conditions and the Trust Deed, upon presentation and, at maturity, surrender of this Bearer Global Covered Bond at the specified office of the Principal Paying Agent at 201 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 3NS, or such other specified office as may be specified for this purpose in accordance with the Conditions or at the specified office of any of the other Paying Agents located outside the United States, its territories and possessions (except as provided in the Conditions) from time to time appointed by the Issuer in respect of the Covered Bonds.
On any redemption of, or payment of an instalment or interest being made in respect of, or purchase and cancellation of, any of the Covered Bonds represented by this Bearer Global Covered Bond the Issuer will procure that:
(i) if the Final Terms Document indicates that this Global Covered Bond is intended to be a New Global Covered Bond, details of such redemption, payment or purchase and cancellation (as the case may be) will be entered pro rata in the records of the relevant Clearing Systems and, upon any such entry being made, the Principal Amount Outstanding of the Covered Bonds recorded in the records of the relevant Clearing Systems and represented by this Global Covered Bond will be reduced by the aggregate nominal amount of the Covered Bonds so redeemed or purchased and cancelled or by the aggregate amount of such instalment so paid; or
(ii) if the Final Terms Document indicates that this Bearer Global Covered Bond is not intended to be a New Global Covered Bond, details of such exchange will be entered by or on behalf of the Issuer in Schedule Two hereto and the relevant space in Schedule Two hereto recording such exchange will be signed by or on behalf of the Issuer, whereupon the Principal Amount Outstanding of this Global Covered Bond and the Covered Bonds represented by this Bearer Global Covered Bond will be increased by the nominal amount of the Temporary Global Covered Bond so exchanged.
This Bearer Global Covered Bond may be exchanged (free of charge) in whole, but not in part, for Bearer Definitive Covered Bonds and (if applicable) Coupons and/or Talons in or substantially in the forms set out in Parts 3, 4 and 5 of Schedule 2 to the Trust Deed (on the basis that all the appropriate details have been included on the face of such Bearer Definitive Covered Bonds and (if applicable) Coupons and/or Talons and the relevant information supplementing, replacing or modifying the Conditions appearing in the Final Terms Document has been endorsed on or attached to such Bearer Definitive Covered Bonds) either, as specified in the applicable Final Terms Document:
(a) upon not less than 60 days' written notice being given to the Principal Paying Agent by Euroclear and/or Clearstream Luxembourg (acting on the instructions of any holder of an interest in this Global Covered Bond); or
(b) upon the occurrence of an Exchange Event.
An “Exchange Event” means:
(i) the Issuer has been notified that both Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg have been closed for business for a continuous period of 14 days (other than by reason of holiday, whether statutory or otherwise) or have announced an intention permanently to cease business or have in fact done so and no successor clearing system is available; or
(ii) the Issuer has or will become subject to adverse tax consequences which would not be suffered were the Bearer Global Covered Bond (and any interests therein) exchanged for Bearer Definitive Covered Bonds.
If this Bearer Global Covered Bond is exchangeable following the occurrence of an Exchange Event:
(i) the Issuer will promptly give notice to Covered Bondholders in accordance with Condition 13 (Notices) upon the occurrence of such Exchange Event; and
(ii) Euroclear and/or Clearstream, Luxembourg (acting on the instructions of any holder of an interest in this Bearer Global Covered Bond) or the Bond Trustee may give notice to the Principal Paying Agent requesting exchange and, in the event of the occurrence of an Exchange Event as described in (b) above, the Issuer may also give notice to the Principal Paying Agent requesting exchange.
Any such exchange will occur on a date specified in the notice not more than 45 days after the date of receipt of the first relevant notice by the Principal Paying Agent.
The first notice requesting exchange in accordance with the above provisions will give rise to the issue of Bearer Definitive Covered Bonds for the Principal Amount Outstanding of Covered Bonds represented by this Global Covered Bond.
Any such exchange as aforesaid will be made upon presentation of this Bearer Global Covered Bond by the bearer hereof on any Business Day in London at the office of the Principal Paying Agent specified above.
The aggregate Principal Amount Outstanding of Bearer Definitive Covered Bonds issued upon an exchange of this Bearer Global Covered Bond will be equal to the aggregate Principal Amount Outstanding of this Bearer Global Covered Bond. Upon exchange of this Bearer Global Covered Bond for Bearer Definitive Covered Bonds, the Principal Paying Agent will cancel it or procure that it is cancelled.
Until the exchange of the whole of this Bearer Global Covered Bond as aforesaid, the bearer hereof will (subject as provided in the next paragraph) in all respects be entitled to the same benefits as if he were the bearer of Bearer Definitive Covered Bonds and the relative Coupons and/or Talons (if any) in the form(s) set out in Parts 3, 4 and 5 (as applicable) of Schedule 2 to the Trust Deed.
Each person (other than Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg) who is for the time being shown in the records of Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg as the holder of a particular principal amount of the Covered Bonds represented by this Bearer Global Covered Bond (each an
“Accountholder”) (in which regard any certificate or other document issued by Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg as to the principal amount of such Covered Bonds standing to the account of any person will be conclusive and binding for all purposes save in the case of manifest error) will be treated by the Issuer, the Guarantor, the Bond Trustee, the Principal Paying Agent and any other Paying Agent as the holder of such principal amount of such Covered Bonds for all purposes other than with respect to the payment of principal and interest on such principal amount of such Covered Bonds, the right to which will be vested, as against the Issuer and the Guarantor, solely in the bearer of this Bearer Global Covered Bond in accordance with and subject to the terms of this Bearer Global Covered Bond and the Trust Deed. Each Accountholder must look solely to Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg, as the case may be, for its share of each payment made to the bearer of this Bearer Global Covered Bond.
For the purposes of disclosure pursuant to the Interest Act (Canada) and not for any other purpose, where in any Covered Bond (i) a rate of interest is to be calculated on the basis of a year of 360 days, the yearly rate of interest to which the 360 day rate is equivalent is such rate multiplied by the number of days in the year of which such calculation is made and divided by 360, or (ii) a rate of interest is to be calculated during a leap year, the yearly rate of interest to which such rate is equivalent is such rate multiplied by 366 and divided by 365.
This Bearer Global Covered Bond is governed by, and will be construed in accordance with the Laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal Laws of Canada applicable therein.
This Bearer Global Covered Bond will not be valid unless authenticated by or on behalf of The Bank of Nova Scotia, London Branch as Principal Paying Agent and, if the applicable Final Terms Document indicates that this Global Covered Bond is intended to be held in a manner which would allow Eurosystem eligibility, effectuated by the entity appointed as Common Safekeeper by the relevant Clearing Systems.
IN WITNESS whereof the Issuer has caused this Bearer Global Covered Bond to be signed manually or in facsimile or pdf by a person duly authorized on its behalf.
Issued as of the Issue Date specified in the Final Terms Document.
THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA
By:
[Authorized Signatory]
Authenticated by
THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, LONDON BRANCH as Principal Paying Agent[, by its Authentication Agent, ].
By:
Authorized Officer
2Effectuated without recourse, warranty or liability by
………...
as common safekeeper By:
2 This should only be completed where the Final Terms indicates that this Global Covered Bond is intended to be a
Schedule One3 PART I
INTEREST PAYMENTS
Date made
Interest Payment Date
Total amount of interest payable
Amount of interest paid
Confirmation of payment by or on behalf of the Issuer
3.Schedule One should only be completed where the Final Terms Document indicates that this Global Covered Bond is not intended to be a New Global Covered Bond
PART II REDEMPTIONS
Date made
Total amount of principal payable
Amount of principal paid
Remaining Principal Amount
Outstanding of this Bearer Global Covered Bond following such
redemption*
Confirmation of payment by or on behalf of the Issuer
PART III
PURCHASES AND CANCELLATIONS
Date Made
Part of Principal Amount Outstanding of this Bearer Global Covered Bond purchased and cancelled
Remaining
Principal Amount Outstanding of this Bearer Global Covered Bond following such purchase and cancellation*
Confirmation of purchase and cancellation by or on behalf of the Issuer
* See most recent entry in Part II or III or Schedule Two in order to determine this amount.
Schedule Two4 EXCHANGES
(only applicable where the Covered Bonds represented this Bearer Global Covered Bond were, on issue, represented by a Temporary Global Covered Bond)
Date made
Principal Amount Outstanding of Temporary Global Covered Bond exchanged for this Bearer Global Covered Bond
Increased Principal Amount
Outstanding of this Bearer Global Covered Bond following
such exchange*
Notation made by or on behalf of the Issuer
4. Schedule Two should only be completed where the Final Terms Document indicates that this Global Covered Bond is not intended to be a New Global Covered Bond
* See most recent entry in Part II or III of Schedule One or in this Schedule Two in order to determine this
PART 3