Exhibit 4.3
Execution Version
Dated 26 March, 2001
NORTHERN ROCK PLC
as Seller and a Beneficiary
GRANITE FINANCE TRUSTEES LIMITED
as Mortgages Trustee
GRANITE FINANCE FUNDING LIMITED
as Beneficiary
GRANITE FINANCE FUNDING 2 LIMITED
as Beneficiary
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THE BANK OF NEW YORK
as Security Trustee and Funding 2 Security Trustee
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TWELFTH AMENDED
MORTGAGE SALE AGREEMENT
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SIDLEY AUSTIN
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SIDLEY
CONTENTS
1. Definitions and Construction.........................................1
2. Sale and Purchase of Initial Mortgage Portfolio......................2
3. Initial Closing Date.................................................2
4. Sale and Purchase of New Mortgage Portfolios.........................4
5. Trust of Monies.....................................................12
6. Perfection of the Assignment........................................13
7. Undertakings........................................................16
8. Warranties and Repurchase by the Seller.............................20
9. Further Assurance...................................................26
10. Consequences of Breach..............................................26
11. Subordination.......................................................27
12. Non-Merger..........................................................27
13. No Agency or Partnership............................................27
14. Payments............................................................27
15. Assignment..........................................................27
16. Funding Security Trustees...........................................28
17. New Intercompany Loans..............................................29
18. Non Petition Covenant; Limited Recourse.............................29
19. Amendments and Waiver...............................................31
20. Notices.............................................................31
21. Third Party Rights..................................................32
22. Execution in Counterparts; Severability.............................32
23. Governing Law and Submission to Jurisdiction........................32
24. Process Agent.......................................................33
25. Appropriate Forum...................................................33
26. Transaction Documents...............................................33
SCHEDULE 1 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.................................35
SCHEDULE 2 FORMS OF TRANSFERS: REGISTERED AND UNREGISTERED LAND AND
SCOTTISH TRANSFERS..................................................44
Part 1 FORM OF TRANSFER (REGISTERED LAND - ENGLAND AND WALES)............45
Part 2 FORM OF TRANSFER (UNREGISTERED LAND - ENGLAND AND WALES)..........46
Part 3 FORM OF TRANSFER (LAND REGISTER - SCOTLAND).......................48
Part 4 FORM OF TRANSFER (SASINE REGISTER - SCOTLAND).....................50
SCHEDULE 3 ASSIGNMENT OF INSURANCE CONTRACTS..............................52
SCHEDULE 4 INSURANCE CONTRACTS............................................54
SCHEDULE 5................................................................55
Part 1 ASSIGNMENT OF GUARANTEES..........................................55
Part 2 ASSIGNATION OF GUARANTEES.........................................57
SCHEDULE 6 NEW MORTGAGE PORTFOLIO NOTICE..................................60
SCHEDULE 7 LOAN REPURCHASE NOTICE........................................63
SCHEDULE 8 FORM OF NOTIFICATION TO BORROWERS..............................65
SCHEDULE 9 OFFER UNDER CLAUSE 8.6 (REPURCHASE OF FIXED RATE MORTGAGE
LOANS)..............................................................66
SCHEDULE 10...............................................................67
Part 1 POWER OF ATTORNEY IN FAVOUR OF THE MORTGAGES TRUSTEE,
FUNDING AND THE SECURITY TRUSTEE....................................67
Part 2 POWER OF ATTORNEY IN FAVOUR OF THE MORTGAGES TRUSTEE, EACH
FUNDING BENEFICIARY AND EACH FUNDING SECURITY TRUSTEE...............70
SCHEDULE 11 FORM OF SCOTTISH TRUST DEED...................................73
SCHEDULE 12 LENDING CRITERIA .............................................80
SCHEDULE 13 STANDARD DOCUMENTATION........................................84
APPENDIX A THE INITIAL MORTGAGE LOAN PORTFOLIO............................93
THIS AGREEMENT IS MADE ON 26 MARCH, 2001 AND AMENDED AND RESTATED PURSUANT TO
THE DEEDS OF AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT DATED 23 JULY 2001, 28 SEPTEMBER 2001, 20
MARCH 2002, 27 JANUARY 2003, 14 APRIL, 2003, 21 MAY 2003, 26 JANUARY 2004, 28
JANUARY, 2004, 22 SEPTEMBER, 2004, 19 JANUARY, 2005, 15 DECEMBER, 2006 AND 20
APRIL, 2007 BETWEEN:
(1) NORTHERN ROCK PLC (registered number 3273685), a public limited company
incorporated under the laws of England and Wales, whose registered office
is at Northern Rock House, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne NE3 4PL in its
capacity as Seller and in its capacity as a Beneficiary;
(2) GRANITE FINANCE TRUSTEES LIMITED (registered number 79309), a private
limited company incorporated under the laws of Jersey, whose registered
office is at 22 Grenville Street, St. Helier, Jersey JE4 8PX, Channel
Islands in its capacity as the Mortgages Trustee;
(3) GRANITE FINANCE FUNDING LIMITED (registered number 79308), a private
limited company incorporated under the laws of Jersey, but acting out of
its branch office established in England (registered overseas company
number FC022999 and branch number BR005916) at 8th Floor, 68 King William
Street, London EC4N 7DZ in its capacity as a Beneficiary;
(4) GRANITE FINANCE FUNDING 2 LIMITED (registered number 5249387), a private
limited company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales, whose
registered office is at Fifth Floor, 100 Wood Street, London EC2V 7EX in
its capacity as a Beneficiary; and
(5) THE BANK OF NEW YORK a New York banking corporation whose London branch
address is at 40th Floor, One Canada Square, London E14 5AL in its
capacity as (1) Security Trustee and (2) as Funding 2 Security Trustee.
WHEREAS:
(A) The Seller carries on the business (inter alia) of originating mortgage
loans secured on residential properties located in England, Wales and
Scotland.
(B) The Seller has agreed to sell and assign to the Mortgages Trustee certain
mortgage loans, together with the benefit of the related security for the
same, on the terms and subject to, the conditions set out in this Mortgage
Sale Agreement (the "Agreement").
(C) The Mortgages Trustee has agreed to hold the above mentioned mortgage
loans together with the benefit of the related security as bare trustee
for the Beneficiaries upon, with and subject to the trusts, powers and
provisions of the Mortgages Trust Deed.
IT IS HEREBY AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
1. Definitions and Construction
1.1. The provisions of the Programme Master Definitions Schedule signed for the
purposes of identification by Sidley Austin Brown & Wood and Allen & Overy
LLP
on 19 January 2005 (as the same have been and may be amended, varied or
supplemented from time to time with the consent of the parties hereto) are
expressly and specifically incorporated into and shall apply to this
Agreement.
1.2. Any reference in this Agreement to any discretion, power or right on the
part of the Mortgages Trustee shall be exercised by the Mortgages Trustees
only as directed by the Beneficiaries but subject in each case to the
provisions of the Mortgages Trust Deed and the Controlling Beneficiary
Deed.
2. Sale and Purchase of Initial Mortgage Portfolio
2.1. Agreement to Assign: Subject to Clause 2.2 (Conditions), in consideration
of the Purchase Price for the Initial Mortgage Portfolio (which shall be
paid in accordance with Clause 3.3 (Effect of Payment of Initial Purchase
Price)) and the covenant of the Mortgages Trustee to hold the Trust
Property upon trust for the Seller and Funding as beneficiaries of the
Mortgages Trust upon, with and subject to all the trusts, powers and
provisions of the Mortgages Trust Deed and the Mortgages Trustee's
agreement in Clause 3.5 (Early Repayment Charges) to pay to the Seller any
and all Early Repayment Charge Receipts, the Seller hereby agrees to sell
and assign the Initial Mortgage Portfolio to the Mortgages Trustee on the
Initial Closing Date with full title guarantee.
2.2. Conditions: The obligation of the Seller under Clause 2.1 (Agreement to
Assign) shall be subject to and conditional upon:
(a) the issue by the First Issuer of the Notes on the Initial Closing
Date and the borrowing by Funding of the amount provided for under
the First Issuer Intercompany Loan Agreement;
(b) the constitution of the Mortgages Trust on or prior to the Initial
Closing Date;
(c) the Transaction Documents having been executed and delivered by the
parties thereto on or before the Initial Closing Date or, in the
case of any Transaction Documents which are to be executed
immediately after the Initial Closing Date, the same having been
executed and being available for delivery and none of the parties
knowing of any reason why the same should not be delivered
immediately thereafter;
(d) the payment of the Initial Contribution by Funding to the Mortgages
Trustee in accordance with the terms of the Mortgages Trust Deed;
and
(e) the payment of the Initial Purchase Price by the Mortgages Trustee
to the Seller in accordance with paragraph (a) of Clause 3.2
(Purchase Price).
3. Initial Closing Date
3.1. Initial Closing and Conditions Precedent: A meeting shall take place on
the Initial Closing Date at the offices of Brown & Wood, 7 Princes Court,
London EC2R 8AQ, or such offices as the parties may agree, at which the
Seller shall deliver to the Security Trustee (upon request), Funding and
the Mortgages Trustee or the representative of such party (or procure such
delivery to such party of) the following documents:
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(a) an original power of attorney in the form set out in Part 1 of
Schedule 10 (Power of Attorney in favour of the Mortgages Trustee,
Funding and the Security Trustee) duly executed by the Seller;
(b) a certificate of solvency in relation to the Seller dated as at the
Initial Closing Date (in the form of the agreed draft) duly executed
by the Seller;
(c) a list of the Mortgage Loans in the Initial Mortgage Portfolio;
(d) an assignment of the Insurance Contracts to the extent that such
Insurance Contracts relate to the Initial Mortgage Portfolio in the
form set out in Schedule 3 (Assignment of Insurance Contracts) duly
executed by the Seller; and
(e) a certified copy of the board minutes of the securitisation
sub-committee of the Seller authorising its duly appointed
representatives to agree to the sale and assignment of the Initial
Mortgage Portfolio and authorising the execution and performance of
this Agreement, the other Transaction Documents and all of the
documentation to be entered into pursuant to the Transaction
Documents.
3.2. Purchase Price: Subject to fulfilment of the conditions referred to in
paragraphs (a) to (and including) (e) of Clause 2.2 (Conditions) and
Clause 3.1 (Initial Closing and Conditions Precedent), the Mortgages
Trustee shall pay the Purchase Price for the Initial Mortgage Portfolio to
the Seller, in the manner that the Seller directs, for value, as follows:
(a) the Initial Purchase Price for the Initial Mortgage Portfolio shall
be paid by the Mortgages Trustee to the Seller on the Initial
Closing Date (which Initial Purchase Price shall be paid by the
Mortgages Trustee from funds received by the Mortgages Trustee from
Funding on such date in respect of Funding's Initial Contribution
for the Funding Share of the Closing Trust Property pursuant to the
Mortgages Trust Deed);
(b) subject to and in accordance with the Mortgages Trustee Revenue
Priority of Payments, an amount of Deferred Purchase Price in
respect of the Mortgage Portfolio shall be paid by the Mortgages
Trustee to the Seller on each Distribution Date but only from and to
the extent (if any) of any Relevant Distribution (as defined under
paragraph (b) of Clause 4.2 (Consideration provided by Funding) of
the Mortgages Trust Deed) available for payment on such date and in
an amount equal to the Deferred Contribution for the Funding Share
of the Trust Property paid by Funding to the Mortgages Trustee on
such date or in respect of which the payment of such Deferred
Contribution is otherwise satisfied on such date in accordance with
the Mortgages Trust Deed; and
(c) a final amount of Deferred Purchase Price in respect of the Mortgage
Portfolio shall be paid by the Mortgages Trustee to the Seller
following the receipt by the Mortgages Trustee from Funding of any
Final Deferred Contribution, which payment shall be in an amount
equal to such Final Deferred Contribution for the Funding Share of
the Trust Property paid by Funding to the Mortgages Trustee or in
respect of which the payment of such Final
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Deferred Contribution is otherwise satisfied in accordance with the
Mortgages Trust Deed.
3.3. Effect of Payment of Initial Purchase Price: The parties hereto
acknowledge that the effect of the payment to the Seller by the Mortgages
Trustee of the Initial Purchase Price on the Initial Closing Date will be
the assignment to the Mortgages Trustee of the beneficial ownership of,
and all of the Seller's beneficial right, title, interest and benefit in
and to, the Initial Mortgage Portfolio subject to the terms and provisions
of the Mortgages Trust Deed, which assignment will be perfected upon the
occurrence of any of the events set forth in Clause 6 (Perfection of the
Assignment) and the transfer to the Mortgages Trustee of legal title to
the Initial Mortgage Portfolio in accordance with Clause 6 (Perfection of
the Assignment).
3.4. Documents: The Seller undertakes that from the Initial Closing Date until
the perfection of the assignment in accordance with Clause 6.1 (Perfection
Events) and delivery of the Title Deeds in accordance with Clause 6.2
(Perfection), the Seller shall hold the deeds and documents constituting
the Title Deeds and Mortgage Loan Files and all other certificates,
notices, policies, endorsements and other matters necessary to establish
title thereto relating to the Mortgage Portfolio that are in its
possession or under its control or held to its order to the order of the
Mortgages Trustee or as the Mortgages Trustee shall direct.
3.5. Early Repayment Charges: The Mortgages Trustee hereby agrees to pay to the
Seller as part of the Deferred Purchase Price any and all Early Repayment
Charge Receipts received by the Mortgages Trustee in respect of the
Mortgage Loans included in the Initial Mortgage Portfolio PROVIDED THAT,
if any Mortgage Loans in respect of which Early Repayment Charges are
payable are the subject of a trust pursuant to Clause 5.1 (Trust in favour
of Mortgages Trustee), the Seller, the Mortgages Trustee, Funding and the
Security Trustee agree that the benefit of any Early Repayment Charges
payable in respect of such Mortgage Loan shall, on the date of payment to
the Seller of the related Early Repayment Charge Receipts, be released
from such trust.
3.6. Insurance: The Seller shall as soon as reasonably practical after the sale
and assignment of the Initial Mortgage Portfolio on the Initial Closing
Date procure that the respective interests of the Mortgages Trustee,
Funding and the Security Trustee are noted by the relevant insurers in
relation to each Insurance Contract.
4. Sale and Purchase of New Mortgage Portfolios
4.1. Agreement to Assign: Subject to fulfilment of the conditions set out in
Clauses 2.2 (Conditions), 3.1 (Initial Closing and Conditions Precedent),
4.2 (Conditions to Effecting an Assignment of New Mortgage Loans) and 4.3
(No Further Assignment), in consideration of either:
(a) the Purchase Price, if any is payable (which if it is payable shall
be paid in accordance with Clause 4.5 (Purchase Price)), for the New
Mortgage Portfolio and the covenant by the Mortgages Trustee to hold
the Trust Property upon trust for the Seller, Funding and (from and
including the Funding 2 Programme Date) Funding 2 as beneficiaries
of the Mortgages
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Trust, upon, and with and subject to the trusts, powers and
provisions of the Mortgages Trust Deed; or
(b) the covenant by the Mortgages Trustee to hold the Trust Property
upon trust for the Seller, Funding and (from and including the
Funding 2 Programme Date) Funding 2 as beneficiaries of the
Mortgages Trust upon, and with and subject to the trusts, powers and
provisions of the Mortgages Trust Deed,
and (in either case) the Mortgages Trustee's agreement in Clause 4.8
(Early Repayment Charges) to pay to the Seller any and all Early Repayment
Charge Receipts, if the Seller shall at any time and from time to time
serve a properly completed New Mortgage Portfolio Notice as set out in
Schedule 6 (New Mortgage Portfolio Notice) on the Mortgages Trustee,
Funding and (from and including the Funding 2 Programme Date) Funding 2
with a copy (upon request) to the Security Trustee and/or (from and
including the Funding 2 Programme Date) the Funding 2 Security Trustee
(such service to be in the Seller's sole discretion), then on the
Assignment Date specified in the New Mortgage Portfolio Notice the Seller
agrees that it shall sell and assign to the Mortgages Trustee the relevant
New Mortgage Portfolio with full title guarantee (or, in relation to
assets and rights situated in or governed by the law of Scotland, with
absolute warrandice), PROVIDED THAT (a) the Seller hereby covenants and
undertakes that it will not sell and assign New Mortgage Loans to the
Mortgages Trustee during any Trust Calculation Period prior to the
Distribution Date in such Trust Calculation Period, and (b) the Seller
hereby agrees that it is only permitted to make one sale and assignment of
New Mortgage Loans to the Mortgages Trustee during any Trust Calculation
Period.
4.2. Conditions to Effecting an Assignment of New Mortgage Loans: The
conditions to be met as at each Assignment Date in order to effect a sale
and assignment of New Mortgage Loans are:
(a) the aggregate Arrears of Interest in respect of all of the Mortgage
Loans in the Mortgage Portfolio, as a percentage of the aggregate
gross interest due during the previous 12 months on all Mortgage
Loans outstanding during all or part of such period, does not exceed
2 per cent., or such other percentage as agreed to by the Rating
Agencies on such Assignment Date. "Arrears of Interest" for this
purpose in respect of a Mortgage Loan on any date means the
aggregate amount overdue on the Mortgage Loan on that date, but only
where such aggregate amount overdue equals or exceeds an amount
equal to the Monthly Payment then due on the Mortgage Loan and such
amount has been overdue for an entire calendar month;
(b) the long term, unsecured, unguaranteed and unsubordinated debt
obligations of the Seller are rated no lower than A3 by Moody's and
A- by Fitch at the time of, and immediately following, the
assignment of the New Mortgage Loans to the Mortgages Trustee;
(c) on the relevant Assignment Date, the aggregate Current Balance of
the Mortgage Loans in the Mortgage Portfolio, in respect of which
the aggregate amount is then in arrears for at least 3 months, is
less than 4 per cent. of the aggregate Current Balance of all
Mortgage Loans in the Mortgage Portfolio on
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such Assignment Date, unless the Rating Agencies have confirmed that
the then current ratings of the Notes will not be adversely
affected;
(d) the Lending Criteria applicable at the time of origination of a
relevant New Mortgage Loan have been applied to such New Mortgage
Loan and to the circumstances of the Borrower at the time such New
Mortgage Loan was made, provided that material variations from such
Lending Criteria may occur so long as the Rating Agencies have been
notified of any such material variations;
(e) no New Mortgage Loan has on the relevant Assignment Date an
aggregate amount in arrears which is greater than the amount of the
Monthly Payment then due;
(f) the Rating Agencies have not provided written confirmation to the
Mortgages Trustee, each Funding Security Trustee and any Issuer that
the assignment to the Mortgages Trustee of the New Mortgage Loans on
the Assignment Date will adversely affect the then current ratings
of the existing Notes of any Issuer (provided that, in respect of
the assignment by the Seller to the Mortgages Trustee of a New
Mortgage Portfolio in connection with the issuance by an Issuer of
Notes and the drawing by a Funding Beneficiary of a loan pursuant to
an Intercompany Loan Agreement, the condition to be met at the
relevant Assignment Date of such New Mortgage Portfolio will be that
the Rating Agencies have confirmed in writing to the Mortgages
Trustee, each Funding Security Trustee and such Issuer that the
assignment to the Mortgages Trustee of the New Mortgage Portfolio on
such Assignment Date will not cause the then current ratings of the
existing Notes of any Issuer to be reduced, withdrawn or qualified);
(g) the aggregate Current Balance of New Mortgage Loans transferred in
any one Interest Period does not exceed 10 per cent. of the
aggregate Current Balance of Mortgage Loans in the Mortgage
Portfolio as at the beginning of that Interest Period;
(h) each Issuer Reserve Fund is fully funded on the relevant Assignment
Date up to the relevant required amount or, if any Issuer Reserve
Fund is not so fully funded, no payments have been made from such
Issuer Reserve Fund;
(i) the Funding 2 Reserve Fund is fully funded on the relevant
Assignment Date up to the relevant required amount or, if the
Funding 2 Reserve Fund is not so fully funded, no payments have been
made from it;
(j) no Intercompany Loan Enforcement Notice has been served in respect
of any Intercompany Loan;
(k) the assignment of the New Mortgage Portfolio on the relevant
Assignment Date does not result in the product of WAFF and WALS for
the Mortgage Portfolio after such purchase, calculated on the
relevant Assignment Date in the same way as for the Initial Mortgage
Portfolio (or as agreed by the Administrator and Standard & Poor's
and Fitch from time to time), exceeding
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the product of WAFF and WALS for the Mortgage Portfolio calculated
on the most recent preceding Closing Date plus 0.25 per cent.;
(l) the assignment of New Mortgage Loans does not result in the Moody's
Portfolio Variation Test Value of the Mortgage Loans in the
Mortgages Portfolio after such assignment (calculated by applying
the Moody's Portfolio Variation Test to such Mortgage Loans on such
Assignment Date), exceeding the most recently determined Moody's
Portfolio Variation Test Threshold Value as calculated in relation
to the Mortgage Loans in the Mortgage Portfolio as the most recent
date on which Moody's performed a full pool analysis on the
Mortgages Portfolio plus 0.30%;
(m) to the extent necessary, each Funding Beneficiary and/or each
Issuer, as applicable, has entered into appropriate hedging
arrangements in respect of such New Mortgage Loans before such
Mortgage Loans are assigned to the Mortgage Trust;
(n) no event of default under the Transaction Documents has occurred
which is continuing as at the relevant Assignment Date;
(o) the weighted average yield on the Mortgage Portfolio together with
the New Mortgage Portfolio to be assigned to the Mortgages Trustee
on the relevant Assignment Date is not less than LIBOR for
three-month sterling deposits plus 0.50 per cent., taking into
account the weighted average yield on the Mortgage Loans and the
margins on any Basis Rate Swaps as at the relevant Assignment Date;
(p) no New Mortgage Loan has a maturity date on or after January 2052
and, prior to the redemption in full of all Notes issued by the
Funding Issuers, (a) the aggregate Current Balance of Mortgage Loans
in the Mortgage Portfolio on the relevant Assignment Date (and after
the assignment of the New Mortgage Loans on such date) with a final
maturity falling prior to January 2039, expressed as a percentage of
the aggregate Current Balance of all Mortgage Loans in the Mortgage
Portfolio on the relevant Assignment Date (and after the assignment
of the New Mortgage Loans on such date) is not less than (b) the
Outstanding Principal Balance of all Notes issued by the Funding
Issuers and by the Funding 2 Issuers and outstanding on such
Assignment Date (after taking into account any redemptions of such
Notes to be made on such date) with a Final Maturity Date (as
specified in the terms and conditions of such Notes) falling in or
prior to December 2044, expressed as a percentage of the Outstanding
Principal Balance of all Notes issued by the Funding Issuers and by
the Funding 2 Issuers and outstanding on such Assignment Date (after
taking into account any redemptions of such Notes to be made on such
date);
(q) the related Borrower under each New Mortgage Loan has made at least
one Monthly Payment;
(r) for so long as any Notes issued by any Issuer that have a Final
Repayment Date earlier than January 2041 are outstanding, the
assignment of New Mortgage Loans to the Mortgages Trustee may only
occur if, following such assignment, the aggregate number of
Repayment Mortgage Loans in the
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Mortgage Portfolio is greater than or equal to 25 per cent. of the
aggregate number of Mortgage Loans in the Mortgage Portfolio;
(s) the Rating Agencies have provided written confirmation that the then
current ratings on the Notes of any Issuer would not be adversely
affected by the assignment to the Mortgages Trustee of a New
Mortgage Loan in respect of a mortgage loan product having
characteristics and/or features that differ materially from the
characteristics and/or features of the Mortgage Loans in the Initial
Mortgage Portfolio;
(t) following the purchase by the Mortgages Trustee of any New Mortgage
Portfolio, the aggregate Current Balance of Mortgage Loans in the
Mortgage Portfolio that are subject to a maximum rate of interest
and which charge interest at the lesser of the Seller's Standard
Variable Rate and the maximum rate of interest (as specified in the
relevant Mortgage Conditions) (the "Capped Rate Mortgage Loans")
will not exceed 3 per. cent of the aggregate Current Balance of all
Mortgage Loans in the Mortgage Portfolio (including such Capped Rate
Mortgage Loans) as of such Assignment Date, unless Moody's has
confirmed in writing that the then current ratings of the Notes will
not be adversely affected,
PROVIDED THAT, if an Initial Purchase Price is payable to the Seller by
the Mortgages Trustee on the relevant Assignment Date, only the conditions
set out in paragraphs (e), (f), (j), (m), (n), (o), (p), (q) and (s) are
required to be satisfied to effect an assignment of the New Mortgage
Loans.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Mortgages Trustee may waive or vary any
of the conditions set forth in Clause 4.2 provided that each of the Rating
Agencies has confirmed in writing (whether or not such confirmation is
addressed to the Mortgages Trustee) that the relevant waiver or variation
will not adversely affect the then current ratings of the existing Notes
of any Issuer or that it approves the relevant waiver or variation.
4.3. No Further Assignment: The Seller and the Mortgages Trustee agree that the
Seller may not sell and assign any New Mortgage Portfolio after the
earlier to occur of:
(a) the Step-up Date in respect of the Notes of any Funding Issuer if
the option to redeem any such Notes on the related Step-up Date
pursuant to Condition 5(D) of those Notes is not exercised; or
(b) the Step-up Date in respect of the Notes of any Funding 2 Issuer if
the option to redeem any such Notes on the related Step-up Date
pursuant to Condition 5(D) of those Notes is not exercised and the
aggregate Principal Amount Outstanding of such Notes (together with
any other Notes of such Funding 2 Issuer in respect of which the
applicable Step-Up Date has occurred) as at such Step-Up Date
exceeds (GBP)1,000,000,000; or
(c) the date falling 12 months after the Step-Up Date (the "twelve month
date") in respect of any Series and Class of Notes of any Funding 2
Issuer, if the option to redeem any such Notes on or before such
twelve month date pursuant to the terms and conditions of such Notes
is not exercised.
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4.4. Closing and Conditions Precedent: A meeting shall take place on the date
of the sale and assignment of the relevant New Mortgage Portfolio at the
offices of the Seller or at such other office as may be agreed by the
parties at which the Seller shall deliver to the Security Trustee and
(from and including the Funding 2 Programme Date) the Funding 2 Security
Trustee or their respective representatives the following documents:
(a) a certificate of solvency in relation to the Seller dated the
relevant Assignment Date (in the form of the agreed draft) duly
executed by the Seller;
(b) an assignment of the Insurance Contracts to the extent that such
Insurance Contracts relate to the New Mortgage Portfolio in the form
set out in Schedule 3 (Assignment of Insurance Contracts) duly
executed by the Seller;
(c) a certificate of a duly authorised officer of the Seller attaching a
copy of the board minutes referred to in paragraph (e) of Clause 3.1
(Initial Closing and Conditions Precedent) and confirming that the
resolutions referred to therein are in full force and effect and
have not been amended or rescinded as at the date of the
certificate; and
(d) a Scottish Trust Deed in respect of the Scottish Mortgage Loans in
the New Mortgage Portfolio (if any) and their Related Security, in
the form set out in Schedule 11 and with the annexure thereto duly
completed, duly executed by the Seller,
and in any case, after the Funding 2 Programme Date, where only one
certificate or instrument (in each case, the "Relevant Document") is
available under (a), (b), (c) and/or (d) above and whilst the Funding
Security Trustees remain the same entity, delivery of the Relevant
Documentation to one Funding Security Trustee shall be deemed to be
delivery to both of them.
4.5. Purchase Price: Subject to fulfilment of the conditions referred to in
Clauses 4.2 (Conditions to Effecting an Assignment of New Mortgage Loans),
4.3 (No Further Assignment) and 4.4 (Closing and Conditions Precedent),
the Mortgages Trustee shall, if and to the extent that the same is
payable, pay the Purchase Price for the New Mortgage Portfolio to the
Seller, in the manner that the Seller directs, for value, as follows:
(a) if any Initial Purchase Price is payable in respect of the New
Mortgage Portfolio (which shall only be the case if an Initial
Contribution is paid by any Funding Beneficiary to the Mortgages
Trustee on such date pursuant to the terms of the Mortgages Trust
Deed) such Initial Purchase Price shall be paid by the Mortgages
Trustee to the Seller on the relevant Assignment Date (which Initial
Purchase Price shall be paid by the Mortgages Trustee either from
funds received by the Mortgages Trustee from Funding on such date in
respect of an Initial Contribution by Funding for the Funding Share
of the New Trust Property or from Funding 2 on such date in respect
of an Initial Contribution by Funding 2 for the Funding 2 Share of
the New Trust Property, in each case pursuant to the Mortgages Trust
Deed), PROVIDED THAT if on any date the Seller is obliged to
repurchase any Mortgage Loan or Mortgage Loans pursuant to Clause
8.4 (Repurchase), 8.5 (Purchase of Product
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Switches, Further Advances and purchases relating to Personal
Secured Loans) or 8.6 (Repurchase of Fixed Rate Mortgage Loans), and
on such date the Seller sells and assigns New Mortgage Loans and
their Related Security to the Mortgages Trustee, the Seller is
entitled to set-off against the repurchase price payable by it on
such repurchase as set forth under Clause 8.7 (Completion of
Repurchase) the amount of any Initial Purchase Price payable for any
such New Mortgage Loans and shall instead pay (or be paid) such net
amount; and
(b) subject to and in accordance with the Mortgages Trustee Revenue
Priority of Payments, an amount of Deferred Purchase Price in
respect of the Mortgage Portfolio shall be paid by the Mortgages
Trustee to the Seller on each Distribution Date but only from and to
the extent (if any) of any Funding Relevant Distribution and/or
Funding 2 Relevant Distribution available for payment on such date
and in an amount equal to the Deferred Contribution paid by the
Funding Beneficiaries to the Mortgages Trustee on such date or in
respect of which the payment of such Deferred Contribution is
otherwise satisfied on such date in accordance with the Mortgages
Trust Deed.
4.6. Effect of Payment of Initial Purchase Price or Fulfilment of Conditions:
The parties hereto acknowledge that the effect of either the payment to
the Seller by the Mortgages Trustee of the Initial Purchase Price on the
relevant Assignment Date or, if no Initial Purchase Price is payable on
such date, the confirmation from the Seller of the fulfilment of the
conditions referred to in Clauses 4.2 (Conditions to Effecting an
Assignment of New Mortgage Loans) and the delivery to each Funding
Security Trustee of the documents referred to in Clause 4.4 (Closing and
Conditions Precedent) on such date, will be the assignment and transfer to
the Mortgages Trustee of the beneficial ownership of, and all of the
Seller's beneficial right, title, interest and benefit in and to, the New
Mortgage Portfolio subject to the terms and provisions of the Mortgages
Trust Deed. Upon payment to the Seller by the Mortgages Trustee of the
Initial Purchase Price on the relevant Assignment Date or, if no Initial
Purchase Price is payable on such date, upon receipt of confirmation from
the Seller of the fulfilment of the conditions referred to in Clauses 4.2
(Conditions to Effecting an Assignment of New Mortgage Loans), the fact
that any of the conditions referred to in Clause 4.2 (Conditions to
Effecting an Assignment of New Mortgage Loans) may not have been satisfied
or waived, or any of the conditions precedent set out in Clause 4.4
(Closing and Conditions Precedent) have not been delivered or waived,
shall not prevent the sale and assignment of the New Mortgage Portfolio to
the Mortgages Trustee on the relevant Assignment Date (or prevent any
Scottish Trust Deed from taking effect) and any unsatisfied conditions
precedent shall be deemed to have been waived. The foregoing is without
prejudice to all of the rights and remedies of the Mortgages Trustee
against the Seller, including without limitation, all claims for breach of
Representation and Warranty. Each such assignment and transfer will be
perfected upon the occurrence of any of the events set forth in Clause 6
(Perfection of the Assignment) and the transfer and assignation to the
Mortgages Trustee of legal title to such New Mortgage Portfolio in
accordance with Clause 6 (Perfection of the Assignment).
4.7. Documents: The Seller undertakes that from the relevant Assignment Date
until the perfection of the assignment in accordance with Clause 6.1
(Perfection Events) and
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the delivery of the Title Deeds in accordance with Clause 6.2
(Perfection), the Seller shall hold the deeds and documents constituting
the Title Deeds and Mortgage Loan Files and all other certificates,
notices, policies, endorsements and other matters necessary to establish
title thereto relating to the Mortgage Portfolio that are in its
possession or under its control or held to its order to the order of the
Mortgages Trustee or as the Mortgages Trustee shall direct.
4.8. Early Repayment Charges: The Mortgages Trustee hereby agrees to pay to the
Seller as part of the Deferred Purchase Price any and all Early Repayment
Charge Receipts received by the Mortgages Trustee in respect of the
Mortgage Loans included in the New Mortgage Portfolio PROVIDED THAT, if
any Mortgage Loans in respect of which Early Repayment Charges are payable
are the subject of a trust pursuant to Clause 5.1 (Trust in favour of
Mortgages Trustee), the Seller, the Mortgages Trustee, each Funding
Beneficiary and each Funding Security Trustee agree that the benefit of
any Early Repayment Charges payable in respect of such Mortgage Loan
shall, on the date of payment to the Seller of the related Early Repayment
Charge Receipts, be released from such trust.
4.9. Insurance: The Seller shall as soon as reasonably practical after
completion of the sale and assignment of each New Mortgage Portfolio
procure that the respective interests of the Mortgages Trustee, each
Funding Beneficiary and each Funding Security Trustee are noted by the
relevant insurers in relation to each Insurance Contract.
4.10. Mortgage Portfolio: Prior to the earliest to occur of:
(a) a Trigger Event; and
(b) if Funding does not enter into a New Intercompany Loan Agreement,
the Payment Date in January 2008; and
(c) on each occasion that Funding enters into a New Intercompany Loan
Agreement, the latest Payment Date specified by Funding by notice in
writing to the Seller and the Mortgages Trustee as applying in
relation to this covenant; and
(d) on each occasion that Funding 2 enters into a Funding 2 Intercompany
Loan Agreement or receives a further advance under any existing
Funding 2 Intercompany Loan Agreement, the latest Loan Payment Date
specified by Funding 2 by notice in writing to the Seller and the
Mortgages Trustee as applying in relation to this covenant,
the Seller undertakes to use all reasonable efforts to offer to sell and
assign, in accordance with the provisions of this Clause 4 (Sale and
Purchase of New Mortgage Portfolios), to the Mortgages Trustee, and the
Mortgages Trustee undertakes to use all reasonable endeavours to acquire
from the Seller and to hold pursuant to the terms of the Mortgages Trust
Deed, sufficient New Mortgage Loans and their Related Security so that the
Overcollateralisation Test is not breached on three consecutive
Distribution Dates PROVIDED THAT the Seller shall not be obliged to sell
and assign to the Mortgages Trustee, and the Mortgages Trustee shall not
be obliged to acquire, New Mortgage Loans and their Related Security if in
the opinion of the Seller the sale and
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assignment to the Mortgages Trustee of New Mortgage Loans and their
Related Security would adversely affect the business of the Seller.
For the purposes of this Clause 4.10, the "Overcollateralisation Test"
shall be calculated on each Distribution Date and shall be breached on any
Distribution Date where the aggregate Current Balance of Mortgage Loans in
the Mortgage Portfolio on such Distribution Date is less than an amount
equal to the product of 1.05 and the aggregate Principal Amount
Outstanding of all Notes of all Issuers at such Distribution Date, and for
this purpose:
(i) where such Notes outstanding are Controlled Amortisation Notes
or Scheduled Redemption Notes, the aggregate Principal Amount
Outstanding of such Notes will be calculated on a
straight-line basis by applying the appropriate "CPR" (being
the CPR rate most recently calculated by the Administrator and
detailed in the most recent report provided under Clause
12.4(a) of the Administration Agreement) to such Notes on a
monthly, rather than a quarterly basis; and
(ii) where such Notes outstanding are Bullet Redemption Notes, the
amount standing to the credit of the Funding 2 Cash
Accumulation Ledger will be deducted from the aggregate
Principal Amount Outstanding of such Notes.
5. Trust of Monies
5.1. Trust in favour of Mortgages Trustee: Notwithstanding the assignment and
transfer effected by this Agreement (or by any Scottish Trust Deed made
pursuant hereto) if at, or at any other time after, the Initial Closing
Date or, as the case may be in respect of any New Mortgage Portfolio, the
relevant Assignment Date (but prior to any repurchase in accordance with
Clause 8.5 (Purchase of Product Switches, Further Advances and purchases
relating to Personal Secured Loans)) the Seller holds, or there is held to
its order, or it receives, or there is received to its order any property,
interest, right or benefit and/or the proceeds thereof hereby agreed to be
sold to the Mortgages Trustee, the Seller undertakes with the Mortgages
Trustee, each Funding Beneficiary and each Funding Security Trustee that
it will hold such property, interest, right or benefit and/or the proceeds
thereof upon trust for the Mortgages Trustee (pursuant, in the case of any
property, interest, right or benefit and/or the proceeds thereof relating
to a Scottish Mortgage Loan or its Related Security, to the relevant
Scottish Trust Deed) subject at all times to the Mortgages Trust. In
addition, if for any reason the assignment and transfer of the Initial
Mortgage Portfolio, or any New Mortgage Portfolio (or any part thereof),
or any property, interest, right or benefit therein or any of the proceeds
thereof (each a "relevant asset"), is held to be ineffective or
unenforceable against any Borrower, the Seller undertakes with the
Mortgages Trustee, each Funding Beneficiary and each Funding Security
Trustee and hereby declares that it will hold such relevant asset upon
trust for the Mortgages Trustee. The Mortgages Trustee agrees that it will
hold its beneficial interest in such relevant asset subject at all times
to the Mortgages Trust.
5.2. Trust in favour of Seller: If at, or any time after, the Initial Closing
Date (in the case of the Initial Mortgage Portfolio) or the relevant
Assignment Date (in the case of any New Mortgage Portfolio), the Mortgages
Trustee holds, or there is held to its order, or
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it receives, or there is received to its order, any property, interest,
right or benefit relating to:
(a) any Mortgage Loan or Mortgage Loans under a Mortgage Account and
their Related Security repurchased by the Seller pursuant to Clause
8 (Warranties and Repurchase by the Seller); or
(b) (without prejudice to Clause 10 (Consequences of Breach)) any Early
Repayment Charges payable by a Borrower in respect of any Mortgage
Loan in the Mortgages Trust;
and/or the proceeds thereof, the Mortgages Trustee undertakes with the
Seller that it will remit, assign or transfer the same to the Seller, as
the case may require, and until it does so or to the extent that the
Mortgages Trustee is unable to effect such remittance, assignment or
transfer, the Mortgages Trustee undertakes to hold such property,
interest, right or benefit and/or the proceeds thereof upon trust for the
Seller as the sole beneficial owner thereof or as the Seller may direct
provided that the Mortgages Trustee shall not be in breach of its
obligations under this Clause 5 if, having received any such moneys and
paid them to third parties in error, it pays (at the direction of the
Beneficiaries) to the Seller an amount equal to the moneys so paid in
error in accordance with the Administration Agreement. In addition, if the
Seller is required or elects to repurchase any Mortgage Loan and its
Related Security pursuant to Clauses 8.4 (Repurchase), 8.5 (Purchase of
Product Switches, Further Advances and purchases relating to Personal
Secured Loans) or 8.6 (Repurchase of Fixed Rate Mortgage Loans) and such
Mortgage Loan or its Related Security, or any part thereof, or any
property, interest, right or benefit therein or any of the proceeds
thereof (each, a "relevant asset"), is held by the Seller subject to a
trust pursuant to Clause 5.1 (Trust in favour of Mortgages Trustee), then
the Seller, the Mortgages Trustee, each Funding Beneficiary and each
Funding Security Trustee agree that such relevant asset shall be released
from the trust constituted pursuant to Clause 5.1 (Trust in favour of
Mortgages Trustee) on the date that such relevant asset would otherwise
have been repurchased or re-transferred pursuant to Clause 8.7 (Completion
of Repurchase).
6. Perfection of the Assignment
6.1. Perfection Events: The execution of transfers and assignations of the
Mortgages to the Mortgages Trustee and the notifications to Borrowers
notifying such Borrowers of the assignment or assignation of their
Mortgage Loans and Related Security to the Mortgages Trustee shall be
completed within 20 business days of receipt of a written request in
accordance with Clause 6.2 (Perfection) upon the occurrence of any of the
following events:
(a) the valid service:
(i) of a Funding Intercompany Loan Enforcement Notice;
(ii) of a Funding 2 Intercompany Loan Enforcement Notice;
(iii) of a Note Enforcement Notice (on any Funding Issuer); or
(iv) of an Issuer Enforcement Notice (on any Funding 2 Issuer),
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provided that the perfection of an assignment of the Mortgage
Portfolio shall not be required if the sole reason for the service
of any Note Enforcement Notice (on any Funding Issuer) or any Issuer
Enforcement Notice (on any Funding 2 Issuer) is a default by a Swap
Provider of any Issuer;
(b) unless otherwise agreed by the Rating Agencies, the termination of
the Seller's role as Administrator under the Administration
Agreement and failure of any substitute administrator to assume the
duties of the Administrator; or
(c) the Seller being required by an order of a court of competent
jurisdiction, or by a change in law occurring after the Initial
Closing Date, or by a regulatory authority of which the Seller is a
member or with whose instructions it is customary that the Seller
comply, to perfect the transfer of legal title to the Mortgage Loans
and the Related Security in favour of the Mortgages Trustee; or (d)
the security under:
(i) the Funding Deed of Charge or any material part of such
security; or
(ii) the Funding 2 Deed of Charge or any material part of such
security,
being in jeopardy and it being necessary to perfect the transfer of
legal title to the Mortgage Loans and their Related Security in
favour of the Mortgages Trustee in order to reduce such jeopardy
materially; or
(e) the occurrence of an Insolvency Event in relation to the Seller; or
(f) notice in writing from the Seller to the Mortgages Trustee and each
Funding Beneficiary (with a copy to each Funding Security Trustee)
requesting such transfer.
6.2. Perfection: If an event set forth in any of paragraphs (a) to (f) of
Clause 6.1 (Perfection Events) occurs and either the Mortgages Trustee or
the Funding Beneficiaries (with the consent of the Funding Security
Trustees) or the Funding Security Trustees so request in writing the
Seller shall perfect the assignments as contemplated by and in accordance
with this Clause 6 (Perfection of the Assignment) in relation to all
Mortgage Loans then in the Mortgage Portfolio and shall:
(i) deliver to the Mortgages Trustee all Title Deeds and (subject
to receipt of up to date schedules) the transfers and
assignations referred to in Clause 6.3 (Transfer Documents)
duly executed by the Seller; and
(ii) give formal notice of the transfers and assignations to the
relevant Borrowers, insurers and other persons (all such
notices being in such form or forms as may be required by the
Mortgages Trustee or the Funding Beneficiaries (with the
written consent of the Funding Security Trustees) or the
Funding Security Trustees).
6.3. Transfer Documents: If an event set forth in any of paragraphs (a) to (f)
of Clause 6.1 (Perfection Events) occurs, the transfers that the Seller is
required to deliver are:
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(a) transfers in the form set out in Part 1 of Schedule 2 (Form of
Transfer (Registered Land - England and Wales)) of all the English
Mortgages then in the Mortgage Portfolio secured (or intended to be
secured) over English Properties which comprise registered land
(including any English Property which is the subject of an
application for first registration at the Land Registry);
(b) transfers in the form set out in Part 2 of Schedule 2 (Form of
Transfer (Unregistered Land - England and Wales)) of all the English
Mortgages then in the Mortgage Portfolio secured (or intended to be
secured) over English Properties which comprise unregistered land
(excluding any which is the subject of an application for first
registration);
(c) assignations in the form set out in Part 3 of Schedule 2 (Form of
Transfer (Land Register - Scotland)) of all the Scottish Mortgages
then in the Mortgage Portfolio secured (or intended to be secured
over Scottish Properties title to which is registered (or in the
course of being registered) in the Land Register of Scotland;
(d) assignations in the form set out in Part 4 of Schedule 2 (Form of
Transfer (Sasine Register - Scotland)) of all the Scottish Mortgages
then in the Mortgage Portfolio secured (or intended to be secured)
over Scottish Properties title to which is recorded (or in the
course of being recorded) in the General Register of Sasines;
(e) transfers and assignations of the benefit of the Guarantees relating
to any relevant Mortgage Loan in the form of the Assignment of
Guarantees set out in Part 1 of Schedule 5 (Assignment of
Guarantees) in relation to Guarantees governed by English law and in
the form of the Assignation of Guarantees set out in Part 2 of
Schedule 5 (Assignation of Guarantees) in relation to Guarantees
governed by Scots law; and
(f) transfers and assignations of the Related Security or any other
property or security sold to the Mortgages Trustee under this
Agreement in such form as the Mortgages Trustee or the Funding
Security Trustees may reasonably require.
The Mortgages Trustee or any one of the Funding Beneficiaries (with the
consent of the relevant Funding Security Trustee) or any one of the
Funding Security Trustees may require that the form of any transfer or
assignation referred to in this Clause 6.3 be changed at any time to
reflect changes in law or relevant registry practice or requirements.
6.4. Prior to Perfection: Prior to perfection pursuant to Clause 6.1
(Perfection Events) and subject to Clause 7.3 (Seller Ratings) and Clauses
3.6 (Insurance) and 4.9 (Insurance) neither the Mortgages Trustee nor any
Funding Beneficiary nor any Funding Security Trustee will:
(a) register or record itself at, or submit or require the submission of
any notice, form, request or application to, or pay any fee for the
registration or recording of, or the noting of any interest at, the
Land Charges Department of the Land
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Registry or in the Registers of Scotland or at the Land Registry in
relation to the Mortgages Trustee's and/or Funding's and/or Funding
2's interests in the Mortgage Portfolio;
(b) give or require the giving of any notice to any Borrower, insurer or
any other person of:
(i) the assignment or assignation of that Borrower's Mortgage Loan
and its Related Security or such other property as may be
included in the Mortgage Portfolio to the Mortgages Trustee;
or
(ii) the charge by Funding of Funding's beneficial interest in that
Borrower's Mortgage Loan and its Related Security or such
other property to the Security Trustee pursuant to the Funding
Deed of Charge; or
(iii) the charge by Funding 2 of Funding 2's beneficial interest in
that Borrower's Mortgage Loan and its Related Security or such
other property to the Funding 2 Security Trustee pursuant to
the Funding 2 Deed of Charge; or
(c) send or require to be sent to any solicitor who has acted on behalf
of the Seller in respect of any Mortgage with respect to which the
Seller has not received a complete set of the Title Deeds a letter
or other communication requiring such solicitor to hold such
documents to the order of the Mortgages Trustee, the Security
Trustee or the Funding 2 Security Trustee (as the case may be).
6.5. Further Assurance: The Seller shall, subject to the other provisions of
this Clause 6 (Perfection of the Assignment), upon request do all such
other deeds, assurances, agreements, instruments, acts and things as the
Mortgages Trustee, the Funding Beneficiaries or the Funding Security
Trustees may require in order to give effect to the terms of this
Agreement and the assignments and assignations contemplated herein.
7. Undertakings
7.1. Administration: The Mortgages Trustee and each Funding Beneficiary
undertake that they will at all times (or will direct the Administrator at
all times to) administer and enforce (and exercise their powers and rights
and perform their obligations under) the Mortgage Conditions and the
Mortgage Loan Agreement relating to each Mortgage Loan comprised in the
Mortgage Portfolio and their Related Security in accordance with the
Administration Procedures (for so long as these exist and thereafter in
accordance with such policies as would be applied by a reasonable, prudent
mortgage lender in the conduct of its business).
7.2. Reimbursement of Borrower: The Seller hereby undertakes with the Mortgages
Trustee and each Funding Beneficiary that, in the event that any Borrower
establishes that it has at any time prior to the Initial Closing Date or,
as the case may be, the relevant Assignment Date, paid to the Seller any
amounts in excess of sums due to the Seller as at the date of payment
under the Mortgage Conditions applicable to that Mortgage Loan (other than
any Overpayment made by a Borrower under Flexible
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Mortgage Loan) the Seller will reimburse the Borrower for such overpayment
together with any interest, cost or other expense associated therewith.
The Seller further agrees to hold the Mortgages Trustee and each Funding
Beneficiary harmless against any such claims and to indemnify the
Mortgages Trustee and each Funding Beneficiary on an after Tax basis in
relation to any costs, expense, loss or other claim which may arise in
connection therewith. Any payment made by the Seller to the Mortgages
Trustee and each Funding Beneficiary in discharge of the foregoing
indemnity shall be regarded as a rebate of part of the Purchase Price of
the relevant Mortgage Loan.
7.3. Seller Ratings: The Seller hereby undertakes with the Mortgages Trustee,
each Funding Beneficiary and each Funding Security Trustee that if the
long term unsecured, unsubordinated and unguaranteed debt obligations of
the Seller cease to be assigned a long term credit rating:
(a) from Moody's of no lower than Baal or from Fitch of no lower than
BBB+, the Seller (unless Moody's or Fitch, as applicable, confirms
that the then current ratings of the Notes will not be adversely
affected) will deliver to the Mortgages Trustee, each Funding
Beneficiary and each Funding Security Trustee (upon request) and the
Rating Agencies details of the names and addresses of the Borrowers
with Mortgage Loans then in the Mortgage Portfolio on computer
diskette and a draft letter of notice to such Borrowers of the sale
and assignment of those Mortgage Loans and their Related Security to
the Mortgages Trustee in the form set out in Schedule 8 (Form of
Notification to Borrowers); and
(b) from S&P of no lower than BBB-, from Moody's of no lower than Baa3
or from Fitch of no lower than BBB-, the Seller (unless S&P, Moody's
and Fitch, as applicable, confirms that the then-current ratings of
the Notes will not be adversely affected) shall within 10 Business
Days of such cessation give notice of the sale and assignment
effected by this Agreement (and, in the case of any Scottish
Mortgage Loan, the making of the relevant Scottish Trust Deed) to
each Borrower with a Mortgage Loan then in the Mortgage Portfolio in
the form set out in Schedule 8 (Form of Notification to Borrowers)
(and if the Seller fails to give such notice, then the Mortgages
Trustee shall give such notice as the Seller's attorney under the
power of attorney set out in Schedule 10 (Power of Attorney in
favour of the Mortgages Trustee, each Funding Beneficiary and each
Funding Security Trustee)),
(c) provided that, in respect of Clause 7.3(a), should the Seller be
required as described in such Clause to provide the details of the
names and addresses of Borrowers to the Mortgages Trustee and/or
each Funding Beneficiary, the Mortgages Trustee and each Funding
Beneficiary (to the extent, in respect of Funding, that such
information is to be delivered to Funding other than at its United
Kingdom branch office) hereby agrees to appoint an agent that is
located in the United Kingdom and which maintains all appropriate
registrations, notifications, licences and authorities (if any)
required under the Data Protection Act 1998 to receive and maintain
such information on its behalf, and under no circumstances shall
either the Mortgages Trustee or Funding accept such information at
its Jersey registered office or otherwise in Jersey (unless Jersey
is declared an "approved state" by the European
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Commission, in which case such data may be delivered to the
Mortgages Trustee and/or Funding at their respective Jersey
offices).
7.4. Pending Perfection: The Seller undertakes to the Mortgages Trustee, each
Funding Beneficiary and each Funding Security Trustee that, pending
perfection under Clause 6 (Perfection of the Assignment), the Seller:
(a) shall promptly notify the Mortgages Trustee, each Funding
Beneficiary and (upon request) each Funding Security Trustee if it
receives written notice of any litigation or claim calling into
question in any material way the Seller's or the Mortgages Trustee's
title to any Mortgage Loan comprised in the Mortgage Portfolio or
its Related Security or if it becomes aware of any material breach
of any of the Representations and Warranties or other obligations
under this Agreement; and
(b) shall, if reasonably required so to do by the Mortgages Trustee,
participate or join in and lend its name to and take such other
steps as may reasonably be required by the Mortgages Trustee in
relation to, any legal proceedings in respect of the Mortgage Loans
and their Related Security to the extent necessary to protect,
preserve and enforce the Seller's or the Mortgages Trustee's or any
Funding Beneficiary's or any Funding Security Trustee's title to or
interest in any Mortgage Loan or its Related Security provided that
the Seller is reimbursed, subject to and in accordance with the
relevant priority of payments under and in accordance with the
Transaction Documents, by the Mortgages Trustee and the Funding
Beneficiaries for the reasonable legal expenses and costs of such
proceedings.
7.5. Responsibility of Seller: The Seller hereby further undertakes with the
Mortgages Trustee and each Funding Beneficiary that it is and at all times
shall remain solely responsible for any Product Switches (other than a
Re-Fixed Mortgage Loan), for funding any Cash Re-Draws made by a Borrower
under the Mortgage Conditions and the Mortgage Loan Agreement relating to
a Flexible Mortgage Loan, for funding any request for any Further Advance
made by a Borrower, for funding any request for any Further Draw under a
Personal Secured Loan and for paying to the Mortgages Trustee from time to
time an amount equal to the Unpaid Interest associated with any Non-Cash
Re-Draw made by a Borrower under the Mortgage Conditions and the Mortgage
Loan Agreement relating to a Flexible Mortgage Loan. For the avoidance of
doubt, neither the Mortgages Trustee nor any Funding Beneficiary will be
required to advance moneys to the Seller or to a Borrower in order to fund
such a Re-Draw or Further Advance or Further Draw in any circumstances
whatsoever.
7.6. Product Switches and Further Advances:
(a) The Administrator shall not:
(i) accept an application from, or issue to any Borrower any offer
of a Further Advance; or
(ii) accept an application from, or issue to any Borrower any offer
of a Product Switch (except in relation to the exercise of an
option by any Borrower for a new fixed rate under a Fixed Rate
Mortgage Loan),
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without first having given notice in writing to the Seller seeking
confirmation from the Seller that the Seller will repurchase the
Mortgage Loan to which such offer relates from the Mortgages Trustee
in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(b) If the Seller gives such confirmation to the Administrator, the
Administrator shall then issue to that Borrower the relevant offer
referred to in paragraph (a) above on behalf of the Seller and shall
(in the case of any offer referred to in paragraph (a) above) then
notify the Seller and Mortgages Trustee in writing as soon as the
Administrator has accepted the mortgage documentation completed by
the Borrower in relation to such offer.
(c) The Mortgages Trustee shall not itself offer or make any Product
Switch or Further Advance (except in relation to the exercise of an
option by any Borrower for a new fixed rate under a Fixed Rate
Mortgage Loan).
7.7. Standard Variable Rate: Subject to the provisions of Clause 7.9
(Shortfall), the Seller covenants with and undertakes to the Mortgages
Trustee, each Funding Beneficiary and each Funding Security Trustee that,
where the Administrator determines on any date that there will be a
Shortfall during the next succeeding Interest Period and notifies the
Seller to such effect, the Seller shall take all steps which are
necessary, including publishing any notice which is required in accordance
with the Mortgage Conditions, to set the Standard Variable Rate and such
other discretionary rates and margins applicable to the Mortgage Loans at
such levels as may be notified to the Seller by the Mortgages Trustee, any
Funding Beneficiary or any Funding Security Trustee (which rates shall be
the same rates as previously notified to the Mortgages Trustee, each
Funding Beneficiary and each Funding Security Trustee in accordance with
Clause 4.3(b) of the Administration Agreement) as being the rates required
in order for no Shortfall to arise.
7.8. Security Powers of Attorney: On the Funding 2 Programme Date, the Seller
shall grant security powers of attorney to the Mortgages Trustee, each
Funding Beneficiary and each Funding Security Trustee in the form set out
in Part 2 of Schedule 10 (Power of Attorney in favour of the Mortgages
Trustee, each Funding Beneficiary and each Funding Security Trustee)
allowing the Mortgages Trustee, any Funding Beneficiary and/or any Funding
Security Trustee and their delegates from time to time (inter alia) to set
the Standard Variable Rate, such other discretionary rates and margins
applicable to the Mortgage Loans and (save for any Funding Security
Trustee) the rate of (and terms relating to) the Existing Borrowers'
Re-Fix Rate should the Seller fail to do so in accordance with its
obligations under this Agreement, but only to the extent that such rates
have been previously notified to the Mortgages Trustee, each Funding
Beneficiary and each Funding Security Trustee in accordance with Clause
4.3(b) of the Administration Agreement. On the delivery of such power of
attorney in accordance with the previous sentence, the parties hereto
agree that the power of attorney delivered by the Seller on 26 March 2001
in accordance with Clause 3.1(a) shall terminate and be of no further
effect. Nothing in this Clause 7.8 shall prevent the Seller (or any of its
attorneys from time to time) from setting a higher Northern Rock Standard
Variable Rate or higher rates for other discretionary rates and margins
(or in the case of the Existing Borrowers' Re-Fix Rate setting a higher
rate and imposing terms more advantageous to the Mortgages Trustee) than
those to be set or
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required by the Mortgages Trustee, each Funding Beneficiary and/or (other
than in respect to an Existing Borrower's Re-Fix Rate) each Funding
Security Trustee.
7.9. Shortfall: Unless the Mortgages Trustee, any Funding Beneficiary or any
Funding Security Trustee needs to do so to avoid a Shortfall, none of the
Mortgages Trustee, each Funding Beneficiary or each Funding Security
Trustee shall set the Standard Variable Rate and other discretionary rates
and margins for Mortgage Loans which are in the Mortgages Trust
(disregarding any discounts or additions to it) at rates higher than the
then equivalent rates for mortgage loans which are not in the Mortgage
Portfolio.
7.10. Forwarding of Notice: Each Funding Security Trustee undertakes, upon
receipt of any notice as specified in Clause 8.5(C) of the Mortgages Trust
Deed, to forward such notice to the Mortgages Trustee, each Funding
Beneficiary, the Seller and the Cash Manager in the manner set forth in
Clause 20 (Notices) within three (3) London Business Days of receipt
thereof. Each Funding Security Trustee shall have no other obligation
other than the foregoing following receipt of such notice.
8. Warranties and Repurchase by the Seller
8.1. Representations and Warranties: The Seller makes the Representations and
Warranties set out in Schedule 1 (Representations and Warranties) to the
Mortgages Trustee, each Funding Beneficiary and each Funding Security
Trustee:
(a) in respect of each Mortgage Loan and its Related Security in the
Initial Mortgage Portfolio as at the date hereof and on the Initial
Closing Date;
(b) in relation to each New Mortgage Loan (other than Personal Secured
Loans if specifically excluded from a Representation and Warranty)
and its Related Security in a New Mortgage Portfolio, on the date of
the service of the relevant New Mortgage Portfolio Notice and on the
relevant Assignment Date;
(c) in the form set out in Part 2 of Schedule 1 (Representations and
Warranties) in relation to the matters and at the dates set out
therein; and
(d) in the form set out in Part 3 of Schedule 1 (Representations and
Warranties) in relation to the matters and at the dates set out
therein.
8.2. Reliance: The Seller acknowledges that the Representations and Warranties
are made with a view to inducing the Mortgages Trustee, each Funding
Beneficiary and each Funding Security Trustee either to enter into this
Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which each is a party or
to agree to purchase the New Mortgage Loans and their Related Security
comprised in each New Mortgage Portfolio, and that the Mortgages Trustee,
each Funding Beneficiary and each Funding Security Trustee has entered
into this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a
party in reliance upon the Representations and Warranties notwithstanding
any information possessed or discoverable by the Mortgages Trustee any
Funding Beneficiary and/or any Funding Security Trustee. The Mortgages
Trustee, each Funding Beneficiary and each Funding Security Trustee
acknowledges that they have not entered into this Agreement in reliance
upon any representation, warranty or
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undertaking other than those set out in this Agreement or upon any other
enquiry, investigation or search whatsoever.
8.3. Remedies: The sole remedy of the Mortgages Trustee, each Funding
Beneficiary and each Funding Security Trustee in respect of a breach of
any of the Representations and Warranties shall be to take action under
this Clause 8 (Warranties and Repurchase by the Seller) or under Clause
8.4 (Adjustments to Trust Property) of the Mortgages Trust Deed.
Furthermore, in respect of any actual or alleged breach of Clause 8.1
(Representations and Warranties), the Mortgages Trustee, any Funding
Beneficiary or any Funding Security Trustee shall, as applicable:
(a) notify the Seller as soon as reasonably practicable following any
claim or intimation of claim by any person of or arising from such
actual or alleged breach and thereafter keep the Seller informed in
relation to such claim or intimation;
(b) not settle or compromise any such claim made or intimated or
otherwise do anything which may be prejudicial to the position of
the Seller in relation thereto having regard to this Agreement,
except pursuant to the written directions of the Seller or with the
Seller's prior written approval, such directions and approval not to
be unreasonably withheld; and
(c) comply with the Seller's reasonable directions as to answering,
disputing, defending, compromising, settling, or otherwise in
relation to the claim made or initiated (including without
limitation the instruction of particular legal advisers), and if and
to the extent required by the Seller, do such things as the Seller
may reasonably require to enable and authorise the Seller or persons
nominated by the Seller to answer, dispute, defend, compromise,
settle or otherwise deal with any such claim or intimated claim, or
mitigate loss or potential loss on behalf of the Mortgages Trustee,
subject in each case to the Seller indemnifying the Mortgages
Trustee each Funding Beneficiary and each Funding Security Trustee
against the consequences of complying with the Seller's directions
and requirements.
8.4. Repurchase: Subject to Clause 8.14 (Repurchase Not Possible), in the event
of a material breach of any of the Representations or Warranties in
respect of any Mortgage Loan and/or its Related Security as at the Initial
Closing Date or, as the case may be, the relevant Assignment Date, which
could have a material adverse effect on the Mortgage Loan and/or its
Related Security (having regard to, among other things, whether a loss is
likely to be incurred in respect of the Mortgage Loan to which the breach
relates after taking account of the likelihood of recoverability or
otherwise of any sums under any applicable insurance policies), and
further provided that:
(a) the Mortgages Trustee has, or the Funding Beneficiaries or the
Funding Security Trustees have, given the Seller not less than 28
days' notice in writing;
(b) the Mortgages Trustee has obtained the consent of the Funding
Security Trustees; and
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(c) such breach, where capable of remedy, is not remedied to the
satisfaction of the Funding Beneficiaries and the Funding Security
Trustees within the 28 day period referred to in (a) (or such longer
period as the Funding Beneficiaries and the Funding Security
Trustees may direct the Mortgages Trustee),
then at the direction of the Funding Beneficiaries (with the consent of
the Funding Security Trustees) or the Funding Security Trustees, the
Mortgages Trustee may serve upon the Seller a notice in the form of the
Loan Repurchase Notice whereupon the Seller will be required to repurchase
(i) the relevant Mortgage Loan and its Related Security, (ii) any other
Mortgage Loan secured or intended to be secured by that Related Security
or any part of it and (iii) any other Mortgage Loan secured on the same
Mortgaged Property as the relevant Mortgage Loan to which the breach
relates in accordance with Clause 8.7 (Completion of Repurchase),
provided, however, that the Funding Security Trustees shall have no duty
to provide any such notice to the Seller or consider granting their
consent pursuant to this Clause 8.4 unless the Funding Security Trustees
have been notified by a party to a Transaction Document of such material
breach of such Representation or Warranty which, in the opinion of such
party (as communicated to the Funding Security Trustees), could have a
material adverse effect on the related Mortgage Loan and/or its Related
Security, taking into account the considerations provided in this Clause
8.4, and further provided that prior to receipt of such notice the Funding
Security Trustees shall be entitled to assume that no such material breach
has occurred.
8.5. Purchase of Product Switches, Further Advances and purchases relating to
Personal Secured Loans: In the event of there being at any date in respect
of any Mortgage Loan assigned to the Mortgages Trustee hereunder a
PS/FA/PSL Event (other than a Mortgage Loan becoming a Re-Fixed Mortgage
Loan, such PS/FA/PSL Event being dealt with under Clause 8.6 (Repurchase
of Fixed Rate Mortgage Loans)), the Seller may at any time serve notice in
the form of the Loan Repurchase Notice on the Mortgages Trustee whereupon
the Mortgages Trustee will be required to sell and to transfer to the
Seller in accordance with Clause 8.7 (Completion of Repurchase):
(a) any Mortgage Loan subject to a PS/FA/PSL Event, together with its
Related Security;
(b) any other Mortgage Loan secured or intended to be secured by the
Related Security referred to in (a) above or any part of it; and
(c) any other Mortgage Loan secured on the same Mortgaged Property that
secures the Mortgage Loan subject to a PS/FA/PSL Event, together
with its Related Security,
each such Mortgage Loan to be identified in the Loan Repurchase Notice
(any such Mortgage Loan or Mortgage Loans, a "PS/FA/PSL Mortgage Loan"),
free from the Mortgages Trust and any right or interest that any Funding
Security Trustee may have in such PS/FA/PSL Mortgage Loan and its Related
Security under the Funding Deed of Charge and/or the Funding 2 Deed of
Charge (as applicable). Any PS/FA/PSL Mortgage Loan purchased by the
Seller shall be released from the Mortgages Trust and shall no longer
constitute part of the Mortgage Portfolio and shall be released from any
right or interest that any Funding Security Trustee may have had in such
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Mortgage Loan and its Related Security under the Funding Deed of Charge
and/or the Funding 2 Deed of Charge (as applicable) prior to such
repurchase.
8.6. Repurchase of Fixed Rate Mortgage Loans:
(a) Where a Mortgage Loan bears interest at a fixed rate for a certain
period (the "initial fixed rate period"), after the expiry of which
the Borrower is entitled to exercise an option for a new fixed rate
(whether or not subject to certain conditions), the Mortgages
Trustee may by notice in writing to the Seller given at any time not
more than 60 days before the expiry of that initial fixed rate
period (which for the avoidance of doubt shall exclude any period of
extension to which the relevant Borrower is entitled), offer to
re-sell to the Seller that Mortgage Loan together with its Related
Security if that Mortgage Loan becomes a Re-Fixed Mortgage Loan
during the 3-month period immediately following the end of that
initial fixed rate period. The offer will be in writing in the form
set out in Schedule 9 (Offer under Clause 8.6 (Repurchase of Fixed
Rate Mortgage Loans)) and will be signed by or on behalf of the
Mortgages Trustee.
(b) The Seller may accept the offer made in accordance with paragraph
(a) above on the date on which that Mortgage Loan becomes a Re-Fixed
Mortgage Loan during the 3-month period immediately following the
end of the initial fixed rate period relating to it, only by payment
to the Mortgages Trustee of the consideration payable for the
repurchase of the relevant Mortgage Loan and its Related Security in
accordance with Clause 8.7 (Completion of Repurchase).
(c) The parties hereto acknowledge that the effect of the payment to the
Mortgages Trustee by the Seller of the consideration for the
repurchase of the relevant Mortgage Loan and its Related Security in
accordance with paragraph (b) above will be the assignment and
transfer to the Seller of the beneficial ownership of, and all of
the Mortgages Trustee's beneficial right, title, interest and
benefit in and to, that Mortgage Loan, and completion of the
repurchase shall be effected by the parties in accordance with
Clause 8.7 (Completion of Repurchase).
(d) The Seller hereby covenants and undertakes that if it does not
accept the offer made by the Mortgages Trustee in accordance with
paragraph (b) above, then whether or not the Mortgage Loan becomes a
Re-Fixed Mortgage Loan, it will set the Existing Borrowers' Re-Fix
Rate applicable for the 3-month period immediately after expiry of
the initial fixed rate period relating to that Mortgage Loan at a
rate not less than that (and on terms not less advantageous to the
Mortgages Trustee or the Funding Beneficiaries than those) notified
from time to time to the Seller by the Mortgages Trustee, the
Funding Beneficiaries or the Administrator as being required by the
Mortgages Trustee or any Funding Beneficiary.
8.7. Completion of Repurchase: Completion of any repurchase or re-transfer or
purchase or transfer, as applicable, shall take place:
(a) in the case of any repurchase or re-transfer pursuant to Clause 8.4
(Repurchase) or any purchase or transfer pursuant to Clause 8.5
(Purchase of
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Product Switches, Further Advances and purchases relating to
Personal Secured Loans) on the first London Business Day immediately
following expiry of a period of 10 days following the date of the
service upon the Seller of the relevant Loan Repurchase Notice or at
the Seller's earlier election; or
(b) in the case of any repurchase or re-transfer pursuant to Clause 8.6
(Repurchase of Fixed Rate Mortgage Loans), immediately upon the
Mortgage Loan becoming a Re-Fixed Mortgage Loan,
whereupon, the Seller shall pay to the Mortgages Trustee an amount equal
to the Current Balance of such Mortgage Loan or Mortgage Loans and any
Related Security and all Arrears of Interest and Accrued Interest relating
thereto as at the date of completion of such repurchase. The provisions of
Clause 8.8 (Transfers), Clause 8.9 (Documentation) and Clause 8.16
(Scottish Trust) shall apply to any such repurchase or re-transfer.
8.8. Transfers: On the date of completion of any repurchase of a Mortgage Loan
and its Related Security in accordance with this Clause 8 (Warranties and
Repurchase by the Seller), the Mortgages Trustee and each Funding
Beneficiary shall at the cost of the Seller execute and deliver or cause
their respective duly authorised attorneys to execute and deliver to the
Seller:
(a) if perfection of the assignment and assignation to the Mortgages
Trustee has occurred in accordance with Clause 6 (Perfection of the
Assignment):
(i) if the relevant Mortgage is over Registered Land, a transfer
of such Mortgage to the Seller in the form of the Registered
Transfer; or
(ii) if the relevant Mortgage is over Unregistered Land, a transfer
to the Seller in the form of the Unregistered Transfer; or
(iii) if the relevant Mortgage is a Scottish Mortgage, an
assignation to the Seller in the applicable form of Scottish
Transfer;
(b) a re-assignment or retrocession of the rights of the Mortgages
Trustee in respect of the relevant Related Security each in a form
reasonably acceptable to the Seller (which shall, in the case of the
re-assignment of the Insurance Contracts, be substantially in the
form of the Assignment of Insurance Contracts set out in Schedule 3
(Assignment of Insurance Contracts); and
(c) a notification to the Administrator that all further sums due in
respect of such repurchased Mortgage Loan are for the Seller's
account.
8.9. Documentation: Upon any completion of the repurchase of any Mortgage Loan
and its Related Security in accordance with this Clause 8 (Warranties and
Repurchase by the Seller) the Seller shall cease to be under any further
obligation to hold any Title Deeds or other documents relating to such
Mortgage Loan or Mortgage Loans and its Related Security to the order of
the Mortgages Trustee and any Funding Security Trustee and if the
Mortgages Trustee or any Funding Security Trustee then holds the Title
Deeds, the Mortgages Trustee or, as the case may be, such Funding Security
Trustee shall forthwith return them to the Seller. Any such repurchase by
the Seller of
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a Mortgage Loan or Mortgage Loans and its or their Related Security shall
constitute a discharge and release of the Seller from any claims which the
Mortgages Trustee and/or any Funding Beneficiary and/or any Funding
Security Trustee may have against the Seller arising from the relevant
Representation or Warranty in relation to that Mortgage Loan or Mortgage
Loans and its or their Related Security only, but shall not affect any
rights arising from a breach of any other express provision of this
Agreement or any Representation or Warranty in relation to any other
Mortgage Loan and other Related Security.
8.10. Notification: For so long as the Seller is the Administrator, forthwith
after it becomes aware of any event which may reasonably give rise to an
obligation under this Clause 8 (Warranties and Repurchase by the Seller)
to repurchase any Mortgage Loan it shall notify the Mortgages Trustee,
each Funding Beneficiary and each Funding Security Trustee in writing
thereof as soon as reasonably practicable.
8.11. No Prejudice: The terms of this Clause 8 (Warranties and Repurchase by the
Seller) shall not prejudice the rights of the Mortgages Trustee or the
Beneficiaries under the Mortgages Trust Deed.
8.12. Claims against Seller: If a breach of a Representation or Warranty arises
in respect of any Mortgage Loan and (in either case) no repurchase
requirement arises in respect of the Seller pursuant to this Clause 8
(Warranties and Repurchase by the Seller), neither the Mortgages Trustee,
nor any Funding Beneficiary or any Funding Security Trustee shall have any
claim against the Seller in respect of, or in relation to, such breach of
Representation or Warranty in relation to that Mortgage but without
prejudice to Clause 8.14 (Repurchase Not Possible) and Clause 8.15
(Indemnity) of this Agreement and Clause 8.5 (Adjustments to Trust
Property) of the Mortgages Trust Deed. For the avoidance of doubt, save as
provided for in this Clause 8 (Warranties and Repurchase by the Seller),
the Seller is not obliged to repurchase any other Mortgage Loan or its
Related Security.
8.13. Assignment: If the Seller makes any payment to the Mortgages Trustee GIC
Account (or as the Mortgages Trustee shall direct) in full satisfaction of
any claim made by the Mortgages Trustee, any Funding Beneficiary or any
Funding Security Trustee in relation to any Representation or Warranty set
out in Schedule 1 (Representations and Warranties), the Mortgages Trustee,
each Funding Beneficiary and each Funding Security Trustee, as the case
may be, shall assign to the Seller such rights as they have against any
third party which relate to such claim.
8.14. Repurchase Not Possible: If a Mortgage Loan has never existed, or has
ceased to exist, such that it is not outstanding on the date on which it
is due to be repurchased pursuant to this Clause 8 (Warranties and
Repurchase by the Seller), the Seller shall not be obliged to repurchase
the Mortgage Loan and the Related Security but shall instead indemnify the
Mortgages Trustee, each Funding Beneficiary and each Funding Security
Trustee against any loss suffered by reason of any Representation or
Warranty relating to or otherwise affecting that Mortgage Loan being
untrue or incorrect by reference to the facts subsisting at the date on
which the relevant Representation or Warranty was given, provided that the
amount of such indemnity shall not exceed the sum of (i) the Current
Balance of the Mortgage Loan that would have been payable by the Borrower
in respect of such Mortgage Loan on and after the relevant completion date
for the repurchase in relation to such Mortgage Loan had the
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Mortgage Loan existed and complied with each of the Representations and
Warranties set out Schedule 1 (Representations and Warranties) as at such
date in relation to such Mortgage Loan and (ii) interest thereon from such
relevant completion date at the weighted average yield of the Mortgage
Loans.
8.15. Indemnity: The Seller shall indemnify the Mortgages Trustee against any
loss suffered as a result of any Borrower exercising a right of set-off
against the Mortgages Trustee provided that the amount of such indemnity
in relation to any Mortgage Loan shall not exceed the sum of the Current
Balance of that Mortgage Loan and interest payable by the Borrower under
that Mortgage Loan as at the date that the Borrower exercises the right of
set-off.
8.16. Scottish Trust: Upon any completion of the repurchase or purchase by the
Seller of any Scottish Mortgage Loan and its Related Security in
accordance with this Clause 8 (Warranties and Repurchase by the Seller)
such Scottish Mortgage Loan and its Related Security shall thereupon be
released from the Scottish Trust and shall cease to form part of the
Scottish Trust Property.
9. Further Assurance
The parties hereto agree that they will co-operate fully to do all such
further acts and things and execute any further documents that may be
necessary or desirable to give full effect to the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement (but subject always to Clause 6 (Perfection
of the Assignment)).
10. Consequences of Breach
Without prejudice to Clause 8 (Warranties and Repurchase by the Seller),
the Mortgages Trustee, each Funding Beneficiary and each Funding Security
Trustee severally acknowledges to and agrees with the Seller, and each
Funding Security Trustee severally acknowledges to and agrees with each
Funding Beneficiary and the Mortgages Trustee (and with each other Funding
Security Trustee), that the Seller shall have no liability or
responsibility (whether, in either case, contractual, tortious or
delictual, express or implied) for any loss or damage for or in respect of
any breach of, or any act or omission in respect of, any of its
obligations hereunder other than loss or damage directly (and not
indirectly or consequentially) suffered by:
(a) the Mortgages Trustee; and/or
(b) Funding or the assets comprised in the Funding Security constituted
by the Funding Deed of Charge; and/or
(c) Funding 2 or the assets comprised in the Funding 2 Security
constituted by the Funding 2 Deed of Charge,
by reason of such breach, act or omission. For this purpose (and without
limiting the scope of the above exclusion in respect of indirect or
consequential loss or damage) any loss or damage suffered by the Mortgages
Trustee and/or any Funding Beneficiary or such assets which would not have
been suffered by it or such assets had the breach, act or omission in
question not also been or given rise to an Event of Default or enforcement
of the security constituted by the Funding Deed of Charge or
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enforcement of the security constituted by the Funding 2 Deed of Charge
shall be treated as indirect or consequential loss or damage.
11. Subordination
The Seller agrees with the Mortgages Trustee, each Funding Beneficiary and
each Funding Security Trustee that on the enforcement of any Mortgage any
sums owed to the Seller by a Borrower secured under such Mortgage and the
rights and remedies of the Seller in respect of the sums owed to the
Seller shall at all times be subject and subordinated to any sums owed to
the Mortgages Trustee by the Borrower and to the rights and remedies of
the Mortgages Trustee in respect of such sums owed to the Mortgages
Trustee by the Borrower.
12. Non-Merger
Any term of this Agreement to which effect is not given on the Initial
Closing Date or on any Assignment Date (including in particular, but
without limitation, the liability of the Seller under the Representations
and Warranties and the provisions of Clause 4 (Sale and Purchase of New
Mortgage Portfolios)) shall not merge and shall remain in full force and
effect notwithstanding the sale and purchase contemplated by this
Agreement.
13. No Agency or Partnership
It is hereby acknowledged and agreed by the parties that nothing in this
Agreement shall be construed as giving rise to any relationship of agency,
save as expressly provided herein, or partnership between the parties and
that in fulfilling its obligations hereunder, each party shall be acting
entirely for its own account.
14. Payments
All payments to be made pursuant to this Agreement shall be made in
sterling in immediately available funds without exercising or seeking to
exercise any right of set-off as may otherwise exist and shall be deemed
to be made when they are received by the payee and shall be accounted for
accordingly unless failure to receive any payment is due to an error by
the payee's bank.
15. Assignment
15.1. Assignment: Subject always to the provisions of Clause 16 (Funding
Security Trustees), no party hereto shall be entitled to assign all or any
part of its rights or obligations hereunder to any other party without the
prior written consent of each of the other parties hereto (which shall
not, if requested, be unreasonably withheld) save that:
(a) Funding shall be entitled to assign by way of security all or any of
its rights under this Agreement without such consent to the Security
Trustee pursuant to the Funding Deed of Charge and the Security
Trustee may at its sole discretion assign all or any of its rights
under or in respect of this Agreement without such consent to any
successor Security Trustee under the Funding Deed of Charge and may
assign all or any part of the Funding Security upon an
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enforcement of the Funding Security in accordance with the Funding
Deed of Charge; and
(b) Funding 2 shall be entitled to assign by way of security all or any
of its rights under this Agreement without such consent to the
Funding 2 Security Trustee pursuant to the Funding 2 Deed of Charge
and the Funding 2 Security Trustee may at its sole discretion assign
all or any of its rights under or in respect of this Agreement
without such consent to any successor Funding 2 Security Trustee
under the Funding 2 Deed of Charge and may assign all or any part of
the Funding 2 Security upon an enforcement of the Funding 2 Security
in accordance with the Funding 2 Deed of Charge.
15.2. Acknowledgement of Security Assignment: The Seller acknowledges that:
(a) on the assignment by Funding of its rights under this Agreement to
the Security Trustee pursuant to the Funding Deed of Charge, the
Security Trustee may enforce such rights in the Security Trustee's
own name without joining Funding in any such action (which right the
Seller hereby waives) and the Seller hereby waives as against the
Security Trustee any rights or equities in its favour arising from
any course of dealing between the Seller and Funding; and
(b) on the assignment by Funding 2 of its rights under this Agreement to
the Funding 2 Security Trustee pursuant to the Funding 2 Deed of
Charge, the Funding 2 Security Trustee may enforce such rights in
the Funding 2 Security Trustee's own name without joining Funding 2
in any such action (which right the Seller hereby waives) and the
Seller hereby waives as against the Funding 2 Security Trustee any
rights or equities in its favour arising from any course of dealing
between the Seller and Funding 2.
16. Funding Security Trustees
16.1. Vesting of Rights: If there is any change in the identity of the security
trustee in accordance with the Funding Deed of Charge, the Seller, the
Mortgages Trustee, each Funding Beneficiary and the Funding 2 Security
Trustee shall execute such documents and take such action as the successor
security trustee and the outgoing security trustee may require for the
purpose of vesting in the successor security trustee the rights and
obligations of the outgoing security trustee hereunder and releasing the
outgoing security trustee from its future obligations under this Agreement
and the Seller shall give notice thereof to the Rating Agencies. If there
is any change in the identity of the security trustee in accordance with
the Funding 2 Deed of Charge, the Seller, the Mortgages Trustee, each
Funding Beneficiary and the Security Trustee shall execute such documents
and take such action as the successor security trustee and the outgoing
security trustee may require for the purpose of vesting in the successor
security trustee the rights and obligations of the outgoing security
trustee hereunder and releasing the outgoing security trustee from its
future obligations under this Agreement and the Seller shall give notice
thereof to the Rating Agencies.
16.2. No Assumption: It is hereby acknowledged and agreed that by its execution
of this Agreement no Funding Security Trustee shall assume or have any of
the obligations or liabilities of the Seller, any Funding Beneficiary or
the Mortgages Trustee or any
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other Funding Security Trustee hereunder. Furthermore, any liberty or
power which may be exercised or any determination which may be made
hereunder by a Funding Security Trustee may be exercised or made in its
absolute discretion without any obligation to give reasons therefor, but
in any event must be exercised or made in accordance with the provisions
of the Funding Deed of Charge or the Funding 2 Deed of Charge (as
applicable) and the Funding Beneficiary Deed. Without prejudice to the
generality of the foregoing, all references to any Funding Security
Trustee taking action in connection with any duty of the Seller shall also
be read subject to Clause 25 and Schedule 4 of the Administration
Agreement.
17. New Intercompany Loans
On each occasion that a Funding Beneficiary enters into an Intercompany
Loan Agreement or is the recipient of a loan advance under an Intercompany
Loan Agreement, then the Seller, the Mortgages Trustee, each Funding
Beneficiary and each Funding Security Trustee shall execute such documents
and take such action as may be required by the Rating Agencies for the
purpose of including the applicable Issuer in the Transaction or taking
account of such Intercompany Loan or loan advances and or providing for
the rights and obligations of such Issuer or the relevant Funding
Beneficiary, including, without limitation:
(a) effecting any necessary changes to Clause 4 (Sale and Purchase of
New Mortgage Portfolios);
(b) ensuring that any Transaction Document relevant to such Issuer has
been executed and delivered prior to the relevant Closing Date;
(c) executing and delivering all documents required by Clause 4.4
(Closing and Conditions Precedent) in relation to any New Mortgage
Portfolio.
18. Non Petition Covenant; Limited Recourse
18.1. Non Petition Covenant: Each of the parties hereto (except for, in the case
of Funding, the Security Trustee and, in the case of Funding 2, the
Funding 2 Security Trustee) hereby agrees that it shall not institute
against any Funding Beneficiary or the Mortgages Trustee any winding-up,
administration, insolvency or similar proceedings so long as any sum is
outstanding under any Intercompany Loan Agreement of any Issuer or for two
years plus one day since the last day on which any such sum was
outstanding.
18.2. Limited Recourse: Each of the parties hereto agrees that:
(a) in relation to the Mortgages Trustee, any amount payable by the
Mortgages Trustee to any other party to this Agreement under this
Agreement not being an amount payable out of the Trust Property in
accordance with the terms of the Mortgages Trust Deed shall only be
payable to the extent that on that date the Mortgages Trustee has
sufficient funds to pay such amount out of fees paid to it under the
Mortgages Trust Deed; and
(b) in relation to Funding:
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(i) only the Security Trustee may enforce the security created in
favour of the Security Trustee under the Funding Deed of
Charge in accordance with the provisions thereof;
(ii) notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any
other Transaction Document, no sum due or owing to any party
to this Agreement from or by Funding under this Agreement
shall be payable by Funding except to the extent that Funding
has sufficient funds available therefor or (following
enforcement of the Funding Security) the Security Trustee has
realised sufficient funds from the Funding Security to pay
such sum, in each case, subject to and in accordance with the
relevant Funding Priority of Payments and provided that all
liabilities of Funding required to be paid in priority thereto
or pari passu therewith pursuant to such Funding Priority of
Payments have been paid, discharged and/or otherwise provided
for in full; and
(iii) it shall not take any steps for the purpose of recovering any
amount payable by Funding or enforcing any rights arising out
of this Agreement against Funding otherwise than in accordance
with the Funding Deed of Charge.
(c) in relation to Funding 2:
(i) only the Funding 2 Security Trustee may enforce the security
created in favour of the Funding 2 Security Trustee under the
Funding 2 Deed of Charge in accordance with the provisions
thereof;
(ii) notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any
other Transaction Document, no sum due or owing to any party
to this Agreement from or by Funding 2 under this Agreement
shall be payable by Funding 2 except to the extent that
Funding 2 has sufficient funds available therefor or
(following enforcement of the Funding 2 Security) the Funding
2 Security Trustee has realised sufficient funds from the
Funding 2 Security to pay such sum, in each case, subject to
and in accordance with the relevant Funding 2 Priority of
Payments and provided that all liabilities of Funding 2
required to be paid in priority thereto or pari passu
therewith pursuant to such Funding 2 Priority of Payments have
been paid, discharged and/or otherwise provided for in full;
and
(iii) it shall not take any steps for the purpose of recovering any
amount payable by Funding 2 or enforcing any rights arising
out of this Agreement against Funding 2 otherwise than in
accordance with the Funding 2 Deed of Charge.
18.3. Corporate Obligations: To the extent permitted by law, no recourse under
any obligation, covenant, or agreement of any person contained in this
Agreement shall be had against any shareholder, officer or director of
such person as such, by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal
proceeding, by virtue of any statute or otherwise; it being expressly
agreed and understood that this Agreement is a corporate obligation of
each person expressed to be a party hereto and no personal liability shall
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attach to or be incurred by the shareholders, officers, agents or
directors of such person as such, or any of them, under or by reason of
any of the obligations, covenants or agreements of such person contained
in this Agreement, or implied therefrom, and that any and all personal
liability for breaches by such person of any of such obligations,
covenants or agreements, either under any applicable law or by statute or
constitution, of every such shareholder, officer, agent or director is
hereby expressly waived by each person expressed to be a party hereto as a
condition of and consideration for the execution of this Agreement.
19. Amendments and Waiver
19.1. Entire Agreement: This Agreement sets out the entire agreement and
understanding between the parties with respect to the subject matter of
this Agreement superseding all prior oral or written understandings other
than the other Transaction Documents.
19.2. Amendments and Waiver: No amendment or waiver of any provision of this
Agreement nor consent to any departure by any of the parties therefrom
shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and
signed by each of the parties hereto. In the case of a waiver or consent,
such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance
and as against the party or parties giving it for the specific purpose for
which it is given.
19.3. Rights cumulative: The respective rights of each of the parties to this
Agreement are cumulative and may be exercised as often as they consider
appropriate. No failure on the part of any party to exercise, and no delay
in exercising, any right hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor
shall any single or partial exercise of any such right preclude any other
or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. The
remedies in this Agreement are cumulative and not exclusive of any
remedies provided by law.
20. Notices
Any notices or other communication or document to be given or delivered
pursuant to this Agreement to any of the parties hereto shall be
sufficiently served if sent by prepaid first class post, by hand or by
facsimile transmission and shall be deemed to be given (in the case of
facsimile transmission) when despatched or (where delivered by hand) on
the day of delivery if delivered before 17.00 hours on a London Business
Day or on the next London Business Day if delivered thereafter or (in the
case of first class post) when it would be received in the ordinary course
of the post and shall be sent:
(a) in the case of the Seller, to Northern Rock plc, Northern Rock
House, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne NE3 4PL (facsimile number 0191
213 2203) for the attention of the Group Secretary;
(b) in the case of the Mortgages Trustee, to Granite Finance Trustees
Limited, 22 Grenville Street, St. Helier, Jersey JE4 8PX, Channel
Islands, (facsimile number 01534 609 333) for the attention of the
Company Secretary;
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(c) in the case of Funding, to Granite Finance Funding Limited, 8th
Floor, 68 King William Street, London EC4N 7DZ, (facsimile number
020 8409 8911) for the attention of the Company Secretary;
(d) in the case of the Security Trustee, to The Bank of New York (London
Branch), at One Canada Square, 40th Floor, London E14 5AL (facsimile
number 020 7964 6399) for the attention of Corporate Trust (Global
Structured Finance);
(e) in the case of Funding 2, to Granite Finance Funding 2 Limited,
Fifth Floor, 100 Wood Street, London, EC2V 7EX (facsimile number 020
7606 0643), for the attention of the Company Secretary (with a copy
to the Seller in accordance with (a) above); and
(f) in the case of the Funding 2 Security Trustee, to The Bank of New
York, 40th Floor, One Canada Square, London E14 5AL (facsimile
number 020 7964 6399), for the attention of Global Structured
Finance (Corporate Trust);
or to such other address or facsimile number or for the attention of such
other person or entity as may from time to time be notified by any party
to the others by fifteen days prior written notice in accordance with the
provisions of this Clause 20.
21. Third Party Rights
A person who is not a party to this Agreement may not enforce any of its
terms under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999, but this
shall not affect any right or remedy of a third party which exists or is
available apart from that Act.
22. Execution in Counterparts; Severability
22.1. Counterparts: This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts
(manually or by facsimile) and by different parties hereto in separate
counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an
original and all of which when taken together shall constitute one and the
same instrument.
22.2. Severability: Where any provision in or obligation under this Agreement
shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, the
validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions or
obligations under this Agreement, or of such provision or obligation in
any other jurisdiction, shall not be affected or impaired thereby.
23. Governing Law and Submission to Jurisdiction
23.1. Governing Law: This Agreement is governed by, and shall be construed in
accordance with, English law (PROVIDED THAT any terms of this Agreement
which are particular to the law of Scotland shall be construed in
accordance with Scots law).
23.2. Submission to Jurisdiction: Each of the parties hereto irrevocably agrees
that the courts of England shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine
any suit, action or proceeding, and to settle any disputes, which may
arise out of or in connection with
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this Agreement and, for such purposes, irrevocably submits to the
jurisdiction of such courts.
24. Process Agent
The Mortgages Trustee irrevocably and unconditionally appoints Mourant &
Co. Capital (SPV) Limited at 8th Floor, 68 King William Street, London
EC4N 7DZ or otherwise at its registered office for the time being as its
agent for service of process in England in respect of any proceedings in
respect of this Agreement and undertakes that in the event of Mourant &
Co. Capital (SPV) Limited ceasing so to act it will appoint another person
with a registered office in London as its agent for service of process.
25. Appropriate Forum
Each of the parties hereto irrevocably waives any objection which it might
now or hereafter have to the courts of England being nominated as the
forum to hear and determine any Proceedings and to settle any disputes,
and agrees not to claim that any such court is not a convenient or
appropriate forum.
26. Transaction Documents
To the extent necessary to comply with the requirements of Section 2 Law
of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989, this Agreement
incorporates by reference to them the Transaction Documents.
AS WITNESS whereof the parties hereto have executed this Agreement for
delivery on the day and year first before written.
as Seller and a Beneficiary
EXECUTED for and on behalf of )
NORTHERN ROCK PLC )
by )
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Name:
as Mortgages Trustee
EXECUTED for and on behalf of )
GRANITE FINANCE TRUSTEES LIMITED )
by )
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Name:
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as Beneficiary
EXECUTED for and on behalf of )
GRANITE FINANCE FUNDING LIMITED )
by )
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Name:
as Beneficiary
EXECUTED by )
GRANITE FINANCE FUNDING 2 LIMITED )
by )
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Name:
as Security Trustee and Funding 2 Security Trustee
EXECUTED by )
THE BANK OF NEW YORK )
by )
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Name:
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SCHEDULE 1
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
Part 1
1. The particulars of each Mortgage Loan and its related Mortgage in the
Initial Mortgage Portfolio set out in Appendix A to this Agreement are
complete, true and accurate in all material respects.
2. Immediately prior to a Closing Date or an Assignment Date, as the case may
be, subject to completion of any registration or recording which may be
pending at the Land Registry or the Registers of Scotland, the Seller was
the absolute beneficial and legal owner of the Mortgage Loans, the Related
Security and the other property to be assigned and transferred by the
Seller to the Mortgages Trustee under this Agreement at such Closing Date
or such Assignment Date, as the case may be, and the Seller has not
assigned (whether by way of absolute assignment or by way of security
only), transferred, charged, disposed of or dealt with the benefit of any
of the Mortgage Loans or their related Mortgages, any of the other rights
relating thereto or any of the property, rights, titles, interests or
benefits to be sold or assigned pursuant to this Agreement other than
pursuant to this Agreement.
3. With the exception of Personal Secured Loans, the Mortgage Conditions and
the Mortgage Loan Agreement for each Mortgage Loan and its related
Mortgage and the Related Security constitutes a valid and binding
obligation of the Borrower enforceable in accordance with its terms (save
any terms which are not binding by virtue of the Unfair Terms in Consumer
Contracts Regulations 1994 or the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts
Regulations 1999) and each such related Mortgage and the Related Security
secures the repayment of all advances, interest, costs and expenses
payable by the relevant Borrower to the Seller in priority to any other
charges registered against the relevant Mortgaged Property.
4. At the time that it was made, each Mortgage Loan (other than Personal
Secured Loans) complied in all respects with applicable laws, regulations
and rules including, without limitation, consumer protection, data
protection and contract law.
5. Subject to completion of any registration which may be pending at the Land
Registry or the Registers of Scotland, each Mortgage (other than a
Mortgage in respect of a Regulated Personal Secured Loan) either
constitutes, or will constitute, following registration at the Land
Registry (in England and Wales), a first ranking charge by way of legal
mortgage or following registration or recording at the Registers in
Scotland, a first ranking standard security over the relevant Mortgaged
Property.
6. Each relevant Mortgaged Property is located in England, Wales or Scotland.
7. All steps necessary to perfect the Seller's title to each Mortgage Loan
and its related Mortgage were duly taken at the appropriate time or are in
the process of being taken with all due diligence.
8. No lien or right of set-off or counterclaim (other than a Right of Set-off
referred to in Clause 8.15 (Indemnity)) has been created or arisen between
the Seller and any
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Borrower which would entitle such Borrower to reduce the amount of any
payment otherwise due under the relevant Mortgage Conditions and the
Mortgage Loan Agreement save in relation to the Unfair Terms in Consumer
Contracts Regulations 1994 or the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts
Regulations 1999 and save in relation to section 75 of the CCA.
9. Prior to making a Mortgage Loan to a Borrower, the Seller instructed or
required to be instructed on its behalf solicitors to carry out in
relation to the relevant Mortgaged Property all investigations, searches
and other actions that would have been undertaken by the Seller acting in
accordance with standards consistent with those of a reasonable and
prudent mortgage lender, lending to Borrowers in England and Wales (in
respect of English Mortgage Loans) and Scotland (in respect of Scottish
Mortgage Loans), when advancing money in an amount equal to such advance
to an individual to be secured on a property of the kind permitted under
the Lending Criteria and a report on title was received by or on behalf of
the Seller from such solicitors which, either initially or after further
investigation revealed no material matter which would cause the Seller,
acting reasonably, to decline the Mortgage Loan having regard to the
Lending Criteria.
10. In relation to each Mortgage the Borrower has a good and marketable title
to the relevant Mortgaged Property.
11. Prior to making a Mortgage Loan the relevant property was valued by an
independent valuer from the panel of valuers from time to time appointed
by the Seller or by an employee valuer of the Seller, and the results of
such valuation would be acceptable to a reasonable and prudent mortgage
lender.
12. Prior to making a Mortgage Loan, the nature and amount of such Mortgage
Loan, the circumstances of the relevant Borrower and nature of the
relevant property satisfied the Lending Criteria in force at that time in
all material respects.
13. The exercise of any discretion by the Seller in the making of any Mortgage
Loan has been consistent with the practice of a reasonable and prudent
mortgage lender.
14. Each Mortgage Loan and its related Mortgage has been made on the terms of
the Standard Mortgage Documentation (so far as applicable) which has not
been varied in any material respect, save for the making of the Base Rate
Pledge.
15. With the exception of agreements for Regulated Personal Secured Loans, no
agreement for any Mortgage Loan (other than to the extent it relates to
the funding of buildings insurance premiums) is or has ever been, wholly
or partly regulated by the CCA (other than by Sections 137 to 140 of the
CCA) or constitutes an extortionate credit bargain under Sections 137 to
140 of the CCA or, to the extent it is so regulated or partly regulated,
all the requirements of the CCA have been met in full. No Mortgage Loan
is, or has ever been, a linked transaction within Section 19 of the CCA.
16. Interest on each Mortgage Loan: (a) is charged on the capital balance of
each Mortgage Loan in accordance with the provisions of the applicable
Mortgage Conditions and the Mortgage Loan Agreement and its related
Mortgage; (b) is not in any event adjusted by reference to the principal
amount due thereunder; (c) is payable
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monthly in advance; and (d) is calculated by reference to the Standard
Variable Rate or the Bank of England Base Rate, subject to any applicable
caps, discounts and fixed rates and the Base Rate Pledge; and (e) subject
to (d) above, may be set by the Seller and its successors and assigns to
that Mortgage Loan.
17. No payment of interest (or in the case of Repayment Mortgage Loans,
principal and interest) equivalent to an amount in excess of one month's
instalment at the applicable rate in respect of a Mortgage Loan in the
Initial Mortgage Portfolio was at any time during the 12 months before the
relevant Closing Date or Assignment Date, as the case may be, in arrears.
18. So far as the Seller is aware, no Borrower is in material breach of its
Mortgage Conditions.
19. So far as the Seller is aware, the underwriting, origination and
completion of each Mortgage Loan is not the subject of fraud by any person
(including, without limitation, the Borrower or any professional or third
party employed or engaged on behalf of the Seller).
20. As at the date of this Agreement, the first payment due has been paid by
the relevant Borrower in respect of each Mortgage Loan and each Mortgage
Loan was fully performing.
21. Where any Borrower is or was entitled to repayment of any early repayment
charge in respect of any mortgage previously held by the Borrower with the
Seller, that repayment has been or will be made by the Seller.
22. Except where a Mortgaged Property was at completion of the relevant
Mortgage (or, where appropriate, in the case of self-build properties, at
the date of completion of the relevant mortgaged property) covered by the
Block Buildings Policy or a block buildings policy providing equivalent
cover, the Seller took all reasonable steps to ensure that at the date of
completion of the relevant Mortgage Loan each Mortgaged Property was:
(a) insured under a buildings policy either (i) in the joint names of
the Borrower and the Seller or (ii) with the interest of the Seller
noted thereon;
(b) insured under a Block Buildings Policy; or
(c) with respect to leasehold properties, insured by the relevant
landlord with the Seller's approval,
and in all cases against risks usually covered by a comprehensive
buildings policy and to an amount not less than the full reinstatement
cost of such Mortgaged Property as determined by an independent valuer or
a valuer employed by the Seller.
23. The Block Buildings Policy referred to above covers such fire and other
commercial risks as would be required by the Seller acting in accordance
with its normal standard for an amount not less than the full
reinstatement value of the Properties covered by the Block Buildings
Policy.
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24. The Insurance Contracts are in full force and effect and all premiums
thereon due on or before the date of this Agreement have been paid in full
and the Seller is not aware of any circumstances giving the insurer under
the Insurance Contracts the right to avoid or terminate such policy in so
far as it relates to the Mortgaged Properties or the Mortgage Loans. Where
the Lending Criteria then in force required that a Mortgage Loan was
covered by the Insurance Contract referred to in paragraph 1 of Schedule 4
(Insurance Contracts), that Mortgage Loan is covered by such Insurance
Contract.
25. To the extent that a Guarantee was required under the Lending Criteria in
relation to a particular Mortgage Loan, that Guarantee constitutes the
valid, binding and enforceable obligations of the guarantor thereunder
(save to the extent that any term of the Guarantee is not valid, binding
or enforceable by virtue of the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts
Regulations 1994 or the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations
1999).
26. If a Mortgaged Property is leasehold or long leasehold, written notice has
been given to the landlord of the creation of the Mortgage.
27. In relation to each English Mortgage, any person who at the date when the
Mortgage Loan was made has been identified by the Borrower to the Seller
as residing or about to reside in the relevant Mortgaged Property is
either named as a joint Borrower or has signed a form of consent declaring
that he or she agrees that any present or future rights or interests as he
or she may have or acquire over or in respect of the relevant Mortgaged
Property shall be postponed and made subject to the rights, interests and
remedies of the Seller under the relevant Mortgage and that he or she
shall not claim any such rights or interests against the Seller. In
relation to each Scottish Mortgage, all necessary MHA Documentation has
been obtained to as to ensure that neither the relevant Mortgage nor the
relevant Mortgaged Property is subject to or affected by any statutory
right of occupancy.
28. No Borrower was under 18 years of age at the time of completion of the
relevant Mortgage Loan.
29. No Mortgage Loan has a final maturity beyond January 2052 and, prior to
the redemption in full of all Notes issued by the Funding Issuers, (a) the
aggregate Current Balance of Mortgage Loans in the Mortgage Portfolio with
a final maturity falling prior to January 2039, expressed as a percentage
of the aggregate Current Balance of all Mortgage Loans in the Mortgage
Portfolio is not less than (b) the Outstanding Principal Balance of all
Notes issued by the Funding Issuers or by the Funding 2 Issuers and
outstanding with a Final Maturity Date (as specified in the terms and
conditions of such Notes) falling in or prior to December 2044, expressed
as a percentage of the Outstanding Principal Balance of all Notes issued
by the Funding Issuers or by the Funding 2 Issuers and outstanding.
30. The Seller has procured that full and proper accounts, books and records
have been kept showing clearly all material transactions, payments,
receipts and proceedings relating to that Mortgage Loan and its Mortgage
and all such accounts, books and records are up to date and in the
possession of the Seller or held to its order (subject to the provisions
of the Mortgages Trust Deed).
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31. The origination and collection practices employed by the Seller with
respect to the Mortgage Loans have been, in all respects, legal and
consistent with the practice of a reasonable and prudent mortgage lender.
32. The Seller has not received written notice of any litigation or claim
calling into question in any material way its title to any Mortgage Loan
and its Mortgage or the value of any security. The Seller is not engaged
in any litigation, and no litigation is pending or threatened by the
Seller, against any person in connection with any report, valuation,
opinion, certificate, consent or other statement of fact or opinion given
in connection with any Mortgage Loan received by the Seller in connection
with the origination of any Mortgage Loan.
33. In respect of any Mortgaged Property which is subject to a second or
subsequent mortgage or standard security, the Seller has first priority
for the full amount of the Mortgage Loan (other than in respect of a
Regulated Personal Secured Loan) and all costs, fees and expenses relative
thereto.
34. Subject to completion of any registration or recording which may be
pending at the Land Registry or the Registers of Scotland, all Property
Deeds and Mortgage Loan Files are held by, or to the order of, the Seller.
35. Each Borrower is a natural person, and no Borrower is at present an
employee or an officer of the Seller.
36. All Mortgage Loans were originated by or on behalf of the Seller in the
ordinary course of the Seller's residential secured lending activities. No
Mortgage Loan was acquired by the Seller subject to any discount and no
Mortgage Loan has been written down by the Seller in its accounts.
37. The Mortgage Conditions and the Mortgage Loan Agreement in relation to
each Mortgage Loan contain no obligations on the part of the Seller to
make any further advances, and all costs, fees and expenses incurred in
making, closing or registering the Mortgage Loans and the Related Security
have been paid in full.
38. All formal approvals, consents and other steps necessary to permit a legal
or equitable or beneficial transfer or a transfer of servicing away from
the Seller of the Mortgage Loans and their related Mortgages to be sold
under this Agreement whenever required under the Transaction Documents
have been obtained or taken and there is no requirement in order for the
transfer to be effective to notify the Borrower before, on or after any
equitable or beneficial transfer of the Mortgage Loans and their related
Mortgages.
39. So far as the Seller is aware, none of the terms in any Mortgage
Conditions and the Mortgage Loan Agreement in relation to each Mortgage
Loan and its related Mortgage are unfair terms within the meaning of the
Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1994 or the Unfair Terms in
Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 in any material respect save those
which impose Early Repayment Charges.
40. The Seller has confirmed to all relevant Borrowers that where any Mortgage
Conditions and the Mortgage Loan Agreement relating to any Mortgage Loan
provide that where any Early Repayment Charge is payable at any time when
the interest rate
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payable under that Mortgage Loan is equal to or set by reference to the
Standard Variable Rate (including without limitation where the Mortgage
Conditions and the Mortgage Loan Agreement relating to the Mortgage Loan
provide for a capped or discounted rate), the interest rate payable under
that Mortgage Loan will be no more than the Bank of England base rate plus
a margin which is determined by Northern Rock.
41. In relation to a Right to Buy Mortgage Loan:
(a) in the case of each English Mortgage Loan the Seller was at the time
of origination of that Mortgage Loan an approved lending institution
within the meaning given to that expression in the Housing Act 1985;
(b) the original advance was made to the person exercising the right to
buy; and
(c) the original advance was made for the purposes of enabling the
recipient thereof to purchase the relevant Mortgaged Property.
For the purpose of this paragraph 41, "Right to Buy Mortgage Loan" means
(i) in relation to an English Mortgage Loan, a Mortgage Loan in respect of
which the "right to buy" provisions of the Housing Act 1985 apply (other
than any Mortgage Loan in respect of which the period during which the
statutory charge referred to in section 156 of that Act would have
existed, had the relevant circumstances applied, has expired) and (ii) in
relation to a Scottish Mortgage Loan, a Mortgage Loan in respect of which
the "right to buy" provisions of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 apply
(other than any Mortgage Loan in respect of which the period during which
the seller's standard security referred to in section 72 of that Act
remains in effect has expired).
42. The loyalty discount applicable to certain Mortgage Loans after seven
years will not apply to any such Mortgage Loans during any period when the
interest rate is fixed.
43. The Seller has paid to the relevant Borrower the full amount of the
cashback payment in relation to any Cashback Mortgage Loan, either upon
completion of the relevant Mortgage Loan or, if subsequent to completion,
prior to the assignment of such Mortgage Loan to the Mortgages Trustee.
44. No Mortgage Loan has a Current Balance of more than (GBP)1,000,000.
45. Each English Mortgage Loan and its Related Security in the Mortgage
Portfolio was made not earlier than 1 July 1995 and each Scottish Mortgage
Loan and its Related Security in the Mortgage Portfolio was made not
earlier than 1 July 2001.
46. Each Mortgage Loan was originated by the Seller in pounds sterling and is
denominated in pounds sterling (or originated and denominated in euro at
any time when the euro has been adopted as the lawful currency of the
United Kingdom) and is currently repayable in pounds sterling.
47. The Seller's Lending Criteria are consistent with the criteria that would
be used by a reasonable and prudent mortgage lender.
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48. The Seller is not aware of any material claim outstanding under any of the
Buildings Policies relating to a Mortgaged Property.
49. At origination, no Mortgage Loan had an LTV greater than 95 per cent. In
relation to Personal Secured Loans, the combined LTV of the maximum amount
of credit provided under that Personal Secured Loan and the other Mortgage
Loan Agreements secured on the same property is not greater than 95 per
cent.
50. Each Mortgage Loan (other than a Personal Secured Loan) has been made for
one of the following purposes:
(a) the purchase of land; or
(b) the provision of dwellings or business premises on any land; or
(c) the alteration, enlarging, repair or improvement of a dwelling or
business premises on any land provided that such land is also the
subject of either (i) an agreement by which the relevant Borrower is
provided with credit by the Seller for any of the purposes in (a) or
(b) above or (ii) an agreement refinancing an agreement under which
the relevant Borrower is provided with credit by the Seller for any
of the purposes in (a) or (b) above; or
(d) to refinance any existing indebtedness of the relevant Borrower,
whether to the Seller or another person, under any agreement by
which the relevant Borrower was provided with credit for any of the
purposes in (a), (b) and (c) above.
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Part 2
1. In respect of each of the Preliminary Prospectus as of its date (except
insofar as the information contained therein has been amended,
supplemented or deleted in the Prospectus) and the Prospectus as at the
date thereof:
(a) each of them contained all information with respect to the Seller,
the Cut-Off Date Mortgage Portfolio and to the Notes which was
material in the context of the issue and offering of the Notes
(including all information required by English law);
(b) the statements contained in each of them relating to the Seller and
the Cut-Off Date Mortgage Portfolio were in every material
particular true and accurate and not misleading;
(c) the opinions and intentions expressed in each of them with regard to
the Seller and the Initial Mortgage Portfolio were honestly held,
were reached after considering all relevant circumstances and were
based on reasonable assumptions;
(d) there were no other facts in relation to the Seller, the Cut-Off
Date Mortgage Portfolio or the Notes the omission of which would, in
the context of the issue and offering of the Notes, make any
statement in either of them misleading; and
(e) all reasonable enquiries had been made by the Seller to ascertain
such facts and to verify the accuracy of all such information and
statements.
2. The Seller has not acquired or owned or possessed any rights in the
Mortgages Trustee or any Funding Beneficiary such that it would "control"
the Mortgages Trustee or any Funding Beneficiary within the meaning of
section 416 ICTA 1988.
There is not any "connection" (within the meaning of section 87 Finance
Act 1996) between either the Mortgages Trustee or any Funding Beneficiary,
respectively, and any Borrower.
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Part 3
The Seller makes the following representations and warranties to the Mortgages
Trustee, each Funding Beneficiary and each Funding Security Trustee:
1. Status: It is a public limited company duly incorporated, validly existing
and registered under the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is
incorporated, capable of being sued in its own right and not subject to
any immunity from any proceedings, and it has the power to own its
property and assets and to carry on its business as it is being conducted.
2. Powers and authority: It has the power to enter into, perform and deliver,
and has taken all necessary corporate and other action to authorise the
execution, delivery and performance by it of each of the Transaction
Documents to which it is or will be a party, and each such Transaction
Document has been duly executed and delivered by it.
3. Legal validity: Each Transaction Document to which it is or will be a
party constitutes or when executed in accordance with its terms will
constitute its legal, valid and binding obligation.
4. Non-conflict: The execution by it of each of the Transaction Documents to
which it is a party and the exercise by it of its rights and the
performance of its obligations under such Transaction Documents will not:
(a) result in the existence or imposition of, nor oblige it to create,
any Security Interest in favour of any person over all or any of its
present or future revenues or assets save for any which are created
under or pursuant to the Transaction Documents;
(b) conflict with any document which is binding upon it or any of its
assets;
(c) conflict with its constitutional documents; or
(d) conflict with any law, regulation or official or judicial order of
any government, governmental body or court, domestic or foreign,
having jurisdiction over it.
5. No litigation: It is not a party to any material litigation, arbitration
or administrative proceedings and, to its knowledge, no material
litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings are pending or
threatened against it.
6. Consents and Licences: All governmental consents, licences and other
approvals and authorisations required by Northern Rock, in its capacity as
Seller, in connection with the entry into, performance, validity and
enforceability of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Transaction
Documents have been obtained or effected (as appropriate) and are in full
force and effect.
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SCHEDULE 2
FORMS OF TRANSFERS: REGISTERED AND UNREGISTERED LAND
AND SCOTTISH TRANSFERS
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Part 1
FORM OF TRANSFER (REGISTERED LAND - ENGLAND AND WALES)
In the form of the Land Registry Form TR4
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Part 2
FORM OF TRANSFER (UNREGISTERED LAND - ENGLAND AND WALES)
This Transfer of Mortgages is made on [ ] between NORTHERN ROCK PLC (registered
number 3273685) whose registered office is at Northern Rock House, Gosforth,
Newcastle upon Tyne NE3 4PL (hereinafter called the "Transferor") of the one
part and GRANITE FINANCE TRUSTEES LIMITED (registered number 79309) whose
registered office is at 22 Grenville Street, St. Helier, Jersey JE4 8PX, Channel
Islands (hereinafter called the "Transferee") of the other part.
WHEREAS:
(A) By the charges by way of legal mortgage ("Mortgages") brief particulars of
which are set out in the Annexure hereto the properties brief particulars
of which are similarly set out ("Properties") became security for the
repayment of the moneys therein mentioned.
(B) By a mortgage sale agreement dated 26 March 2001 made between, amongst
others, the Transferor and the Transferee (as amended, restated, varied,
supplemented or novated from time to time), the Transferor has agreed to
sell and the Transferee has agreed to buy all right, title, interest and
benefit (both present and future) in and under the Mortgages for the
consideration hereinafter mentioned.
NOW THIS DEED WITNESSETH as follows:
1. In consideration of the sums payable and the other consideration under the
Agreement by the Transferee (receipt of which is hereby acknowledged) the
Transferor with full title guarantee hereby transfers unto the Transferee
all right, title, interest and benefit (both present and future) in and
under the Mortgages including for the avoidance of doubt:
(i) the right to demand, sue for, recover, receive and give receipts for
all principal moneys payable or to become payable under the
Mortgages or the unpaid part thereof and the interest due or to
become due thereon; and
(ii) the benefit of all securities for such principal moneys and
interest, the benefit of all consents to mortgage signed by
occupiers of the Properties, and the benefit of and the right to sue
on all covenants with the Transferor in each Mortgage and the right
to exercise all powers of the Transferor in relation to each
Mortgage; and
(iii) all the estate and interest in the Properties vested in the
Transferor subject to redemption or cesser; and
(iv) all causes of action of the Transferor against any person in
connection with any report, valuation, opinion, certificate or other
statement of fact or opinion or consent to mortgage given in
connection with any Mortgage or affecting the Transferor's decision
to make the relevant advance.
IN WITNESS of which NORTHERN ROCK PLC has caused this Transfer to be executed
and delivered as a deed on the date which appears first above.
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EXECUTED under THE COMMON SEAL of )
NORTHERN ROCK PLC )
affixed by order of the Board of Directors)
in the presence of: )
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Authorised Signatory
Name:
Title:
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Authorised Signatory
Name:
Title:
[Alternative methods of executing as a deed will be acceptable if effective]
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Part 3
FORM OF TRANSFER (LAND REGISTER - SCOTLAND)
We, NORTHERN ROCK PLC, incorporated under the Companies Acts in England
(Registered Number 3273685) and having our Registered Office at Northern Rock
House, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne NE3 4PL (the Transferor) CONSIDERING THAT
in terms of a Mortgage Sale Agreement among us the Transferor, GRANITE FINANCE
TRUSTEES LIMITED, incorporated under the law of Jersey (Registered Number 79309)
and having its Registered Office at 22 Grenville Street, St Helier, Jersey JE4
8PX, Channel Islands (the Transferee) and others dated 26 March 2001 (as
amended, restated, varied, supplemented or novated from time to time, the
Mortgage Sale Agreement) we have sold our whole right, title and interest in and
to the Standard Securities and others hereinafter mentioned to the Transferee
NOW THEREFORE we the Transferor IN CONSIDERATION of the sums payable in terms of
and in implement pro tanto of the Mortgage Sale Agreement HEREBY ASSIGN to the
Transferee as trustee under and in terms of the Mortgages Trust Deed among us,
the Transferor, the Transferee and others dated 26 March 2001 (as amended,
restated, varied, supplemented or novated from time to time, the Mortgages Trust
Deed) and its successor or successors as trustee or trustees under and in terms
of the Mortgages Trust Deed:
1 the Standard Securities granted by the respective parties whose names are
specified in Column 3 of the Schedule annexed and executed as relative
hereto in favour of us the Transferor for all sums due and to become due,
to the extent of all sums now due and which may at any time or times
hereafter become due under the said Standard Securities, registered said
Standard Securities in the Land Register under the Title Number specified
in the relative entry in Column 4 of the said Schedule on the date
specified in the relative entry in Column 5 of the said Schedule; and
2 the whole rights and interest of us the Transferor in and under all and
any personal bonds, credit agreements or agreements for loan (however
constituted) secured by the said Standard Securities and granted by or
entered into with the said respective parties whose names are specified in
Column 3 of the said Schedule, together with all sums, present and future,
due thereunder and all other rights, interests and benefits pertaining
thereto:
With interest from and also arrears and accumulations of interest due and unpaid
as at [ ]: And we grant warrandice: IN WITNESS WHEREOF these presents
typewritten on this [and the preceding] page are together with the Schedule
annexed hereto executed at [ ] on the [ ] day of [ ] as follows:
SUBSCRIBED for and on behalf of the said
NORTHERN ROCK PLC
by ......................... .............................
and ......................... .............................
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Schedule referred to in the foregoing Assignation by
Northern Rock plc
in favour of GRANITE FINANCE TRUSTEES LIMITED
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1 2 3 4 5
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Account No. Address Borrowers Title Number Registration Date
Full Names
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Part 4
FORM OF TRANSFER (SASINE REGISTER - SCOTLAND)
We, NORTHERN ROCK PLC, incorporated under the Companies Acts in England
(Registered Number 3273685) and having our Registered Office at Northern Rock
House, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne NE3 4PL (the Transferor) CONSIDERING THAT
in terms of a Mortgage Sale Agreement among us the Transferor, GRANITE FINANCE
TRUSTEES LIMITED, incorporated under the law of Jersey (Registered Number 79309)
and having its Registered Office at 22 Grenville Street, St Helier, Jersey JE4
8PX, Channel Islands (the Transferee) and others dated 26 March 2001 (as
amended, restated, varied, supplemented or novated from time to time, the
Mortgage Sale Agreement) we have sold our whole right, title and interest in and
to the Standard Securities and others hereinafter mentioned to the Transferee
NOW THEREFORE we the Transferor IN CONSIDERATION of the sums payable in terms of
and in implement pro tanto of the Mortgage Sale Agreement HEREBY ASSIGN to the
Transferee as trustee under and in terms of the Mortgages Trust Deed among us
the Transferor, the Transferee and others dated 26 March 2001 (as amended,
restated, varied, supplemented or novated from time to time, the Mortgages Trust
Deed) and its successor or successors as trustee or trustees under and in terms
of the Mortgages Trust Deed:
1 the Standard Securities granted by the respective parties whose names are
specified in Column 3 of the Schedule annexed and executed as relative
hereto in favour of us the Transferor for all sums due and to become due,
to the extent of all sums now due and which may at any time or times
hereafter become due under the said Standard Securities, recorded said
Standard Securities in the Register for the County specified in the
relative entry in Column 4 of the said Schedule on the date specified in
the relative entry in Column 5 of the said Schedule; and
2 the whole rights and interest of us the Transferor in and under all and
any personal bonds, credit agreements or agreements for loan (however
constituted) secured by the said Standard Securities and granted by or
entered into with the said respective parties whose names are specified in
Column 3 of the said Schedule, together with all sums, present and future,
due thereunder and all other rights, interests and benefits pertaining
thereto:
With interest from and also arrears and accumulations of interest due and
unpaid as at [ ]: And we grant warrandice: IN WITNESS WHEREOF these presents
typewritten on this [and the preceding] page are together with the Schedule
annexed hereto executed at [ ] on the [ ] day of [ ] as follows:
SUBSCRIBED for and on behalf of the said
NORTHERN ROCK PLC
by ........................... ..................................
and ........................... ..................................
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Schedule referred to in the foregoing Assignation by
Northern Rock plc
in favour of Granite Finance Trustees Limited
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1 2 3 4 5
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Account No. Address Borrowers County Recording Date
Full Names
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SCHEDULE 3
ASSIGNMENT OF INSURANCE CONTRACTS
THIS ASSIGNMENT is made by way of deed on [ ]
BETWEEN
NORTHERN ROCK PLC (registered number 3273685) whose registered office is at
Northern Rock House, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne NE3 4PL ("Northern Rock");
and
GRANITE FINANCE TRUSTEES LIMITED (registered number 79309) whose registered
office is at 22 Grenville Street, St. Helier, Jersey JE4 8PX, Channel Islands
(the "Mortgages Trustee")
WHEREAS
(A) By a mortgage sale agreement dated 26 March 2001 (as amended, varied,
supplemented or novated from time to time "Mortgage Sale Agreement") and
made between, amongst others, Northern Rock as Seller and the Mortgages
Trustee, certain mortgages and standard securities (the "Mortgages") and
the loans secured thereby were agreed to be transferred to the Mortgages
Trustee.
(B) Northern Rock has the benefit of the Insurance Contracts, as defined in
the Master Definitions Schedule dated 26 March 2001 (as amended, varied,
supplemented or novated from time to time) which relate to the Mortgages
and the mortgaged properties upon which they are secured (the "Mortgaged
Properties") as well as to certain mortgages and properties in which the
Mortgages Trustee has no interest.
(C) This Assignment is supplemental to the Mortgage Sale Agreement.
NOW THIS DEED WITNESSETH as follows:
In further consideration of the sums and the other consideration referred to in
the Mortgage Sale Agreement, Northern Rock with full title guarantee hereby
assigns unto the Mortgages Trustee absolutely all the estate and interest in the
Insurance Contracts including the rights to receive the proceeds of any claim to
the extent only that such estate, interest, and rights relate to the Mortgaged
Properties and/or the Mortgages, to hold the same unto the Mortgages Trustee
absolutely.
IN WITNESS of which NORTHERN ROCK PLC has caused this Assignment to be executed
and delivered as a Deed or the date which first appears above.
EXECUTED under THE COMMON SEAL of )
NORTHERN ROCK PLC )
affixed by order of the Board of Directors )
in the presence of: )
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Authorised Signatory
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Name:
Title:
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Authorised Signatory
Name:
Title:
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SCHEDULE 4
INSURANCE CONTRACTS
Policy number Insurer Policy name/type Date of Policy
1. NR 9501 Northern Rock Mortgage Mortgage Indemnity 18.07.1996
Indemnity Company Limited
2.(a)BL-HHS AXA General Insurance Supercover Buildings 01.01.1997
Limited and Contents
(b)DR-FHH AXA General Insurance Superchoice Buildings 01.01.1997
Limited and Contents
(c)DR-SGD AXA General Insurance Supercover Gold 01.11.1999
Limited Buildings and Contents
(d)AG112/Z1413248 AXA General Insurance Contingency Insurance 23.04.2003
Limited
(e)AG112/Z1413256 AXA General Insurance Properties in 18.10.1999
Limited Possession
(f)BL-BBR AXA General Insurance Cover Me Buildings 18.12.2000
Limited and Contents
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SCHEDULE 5
Part 1
ASSIGNMENT OF GUARANTEES
THIS ASSIGNMENT is made by way of deed on [ ]
BETWEEN:
NORTHERN ROCK PLC (registered number 3273685) whose registered office is at
Northern Rock House, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne NE3 4PL ("Northern Rock");
and
GRANITE FINANCE TRUSTEES LIMITED (registered number 79309) whose registered
office is at 22 Grenville Street, St. Helier, Jersey JE4 8PX, Channel Islands
(the "Mortgages Trustee")
WHEREAS:
(A) By a mortgage sale agreement dated 26 March 2001 (as amended, varied,
supplemented or novated from time to time the "Mortgage Sale Agreement")
and made between, amongst others, Northern Rock and the Mortgages Trustee,
certain mortgages (the "Mortgages") were agreed to be transferred and
assigned to the Mortgages Trustee.
(B) Northern Rock has the benefit of the Guarantees as defined in the Master
Definitions Agreement dated 26 March 2001 (as amended, varied,
supplemented or novated from time to time) which relate to certain of the
Mortgages.
(C) This Assignment is made pursuant to the Mortgage Sale Agreement.
NOW THIS DEED WITNESSETH as follows:
In further consideration of the sums and the other consideration referred to in
the Mortgage Sale Agreement, Northern Rock with full title guarantee hereby
assigns unto the Mortgages Trustee all its right, title, interest and benefit
(both present and future) in the Guarantees relating to the Mortgages the
subject of a Transfer of even date herewith including for the avoidance of
doubt:
(i) the benefit of and the right to sue on all covenants with and undertakings
to Northern Rock in each Guarantee and the right to exercise all powers of
Northern Rock in relation to each Guarantee; and
(ii) all the estate and interest in the Guarantees vested in Northern Rock;
to hold the same unto the Mortgages Trustee absolutely.
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IN WITNESS of which NORTHERN ROCK PLC has caused this Assignment to be executed
and delivered as a deed on the date which first appears above.
EXECUTED under THE COMMON SEAL of )
NORTHERN ROCK PLC )
affixed by order of the Board of Directors )
in the presence of: )
- ---------------------
Authorised Signatory
Name:
Title:
- ---------------------
Authorised Signatory
Name:
Title:
[Alternative methods of executing as a deed will be acceptable if effective]
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Part 2
ASSIGNATION OF GUARANTEES
ASSIGNATION
by
NORTHERN ROCK PLC, incorporated in England (Registered Number 3273685) whose
Registered Office is at Northern Rock House, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne NE3
4PL (Northern Rock);
in favour of
GRANITE FINANCE TRUSTEES LIMITED, incorporated in Jersey (Registered Number
79309) whose Registered Office is at 22 Grenville Street, St Helier, Jersey JE4
8PX, Channel Islands (the "Mortgages Trustee")
WHEREAS:
(A) By a mortgage sale agreement dated 26 March 2001 (as amended, varied,
supplemented or novated from time to time, the "Mortgage Sale Agreement")
and made between, amongst others, Northern Rock and the Mortgages Trustee,
certain mortgage loans and their related security (the "Mortgages") were
agreed to be transferred and assigned to the Mortgages Trustee;
(B) Northern Rock has the benefit of the Guarantees as defined in the Master
Definitions Agreement dated 26 March 2001 (as amended, varied,
supplemented or novated from time to time) which relate to certain of the
Mortgages;
(C) This Assignation is made pursuant to the Mortgage Sale Agreement;
NOW THEREFORE the parties hereby AGREE as follows:
1 Assignation
Northern Rock hereby assigns to the Mortgages Trustee with absolute
warrandice its whole right, title, benefit and interest, present and
future, in and to the Guarantees governed by Scots law and detailed in the
Schedule hereto (the "Scottish Guarantees") relating to the Mortgages
including for the avoidance of doubt the benefit of and the right to sue
on all obligations and undertakings to Northern Rock in each Scottish
Guarantee and the right to exercise all powers of Northern Rock in
relation to each Scottish Guarantee.
2 Intimation
Northern Rock hereby undertakes to the Mortgages Trustee that it will,
within fourteen days of the execution of this deed, serve a notice of
assignation by recorded delivery post in such form as the Mortgages
Trustee shall approve upon each of the Guarantors pursuant to each
Scottish Guarantee.
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3 Governing Law
This deed shall be governed by Scots law and the parties hereto submit to
the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Scottish courts.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF these presents consisting of this and the preceding page
together with the Schedule annexed hereto are executed as follows:
SUBSCRIBED for and on behalf of the said
NORTHERN ROCK PLC
at .................................... ......................
on .................................... ......................
by ....................................
and ....................................
SUBSCRIBED for and on behalf of the said
GRANITE FINANCE TRUSTEES LIMITED
at .................................... ......................
on .................................... ......................
by ....................................
and ....................................
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Schedule referred to in the foregoing Assignation of Guarantees by
Northern Rock PLC in favour of Granite Finance Trustees Limited
[Details of Guarantees]
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SCHEDULE 6
NEW MORTGAGE PORTFOLIO NOTICE
Dated [ ]
1. It is hereby agreed for the purpose of this notice the "Principal
Agreement" shall mean the Mortgage Sale Agreement dated 26 March 2001 made
between, amongst others, (1) NORTHERN ROCK PLC (the "Seller") and (2)
GRANITE FINANCE TRUSTEES LIMITED (the "Mortgages Trustee"), as the same
may be amended, varied, supplemented or novated from time to time.
2. Save where the context otherwise requires, words and expressions in this
notice shall have the same meanings respectively as when used in the
Principal Agreement.
3. In accordance with and subject to Clause 4.1 (Agreement to Assign) of the
Principal Agreement, upon receipt by the Seller of the duplicate of this
notice signed by the Mortgages Trustee, there shall exist between the
Seller and the Mortgages Trustee an agreement (the "Agreement for Sale")
for the sale and assignment by the Seller to the Mortgages Trustee of the
New Mortgage Loans and the Related Security more particularly described in
the Schedule hereto (other than any New Mortgage Loans and their Related
Security which have been redeemed in full prior to the next following
Assignment Date). Completion of such sale shall take place, subject to the
provisions of the Principal Agreement, on [ ] (the "Assignment Date").
4. The Seller hereby confirms that the conditions required to be fulfilled
pursuant to Clause 4.2 (Conditions to Effecting an Assignment of New
Mortgage Loans) of the Principal Agreement have been fulfilled [/save for
conditions ( ) ( ) and ( )]
5. The Agreement for Sale shall incorporate, mutatis mutandis, the relevant
provisions of the Principal Agreement.
Signed for and on behalf of )
NORTHERN ROCK PLC )
by: )
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[On duplicate
We hereby acknowledge receipt of the New Mortgage Portfolio Notice dated [ ],
and confirm [that the conditions set out in paragraph ( ) ( ) and ( ) of Clause
4.2 (Conditions to Effecting an Assignment of New Mortgage Loans) have been
waived and] the sale and assignment of the New Mortgage Loans as set out in that
notice.
Signed for and on behalf of )
GRANITE FINANCE TRUSTEES LIMITED )
by: )
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Schedule
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1 2 3 4
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Account No. Property Address Name(s) Date of Mortgage
Completion
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SCHEDULE 7
LOAN REPURCHASE NOTICE
Dated [ ]
1. We refer to the Mortgage Sale Agreement dated 26 March 2001 (as amended,
varied, supplemented or novated from time to time the "Principal
Agreement") made between, amongst others, (1) NORTHERN ROCK PLC (the
"Seller") and (2) GRANITE FINANCE TRUSTEES LIMITED (the "Mortgages
Trustee").
2. Save where the context otherwise requires, words and expressions in this
notice shall have the same meanings respectively as when used in the
Principal Agreement.
3. We hereby send this notice pursuant to and in accordance with Clause [8.4
(Repurchase)/8.5 (Purchase of Product Switches, Further Advances and
purchases relating to Personal Secured Loans)]* of the Principal
Agreement, upon receipt of which you as [the Seller/the Mortgages
Trustee]* will be required to [repurchase from us/re-sell to us/purchase
from us/sell to us]* the Mortgage Loan(s) and Related Security set out in
the attached schedule in accordance with the terms of Clause 8
(Repurchase) of the Principal Agreement on [insert date].
Signed for and on behalf of )
[GRANITE FINANCE TRUSTEES )
LIMITED/NORTHERN ROCK PLC] )
by: )
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* Delete as appropriate
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Schedule
1 2 3 4
Account No. Property Address Name(s) Date of Mortgage Completion
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SCHEDULE 8
FORM OF NOTIFICATION TO BORROWERS
[To: Borrower]
Dear Sirs,
Northern Rock
Account No.[ ]
We hereby notify you that on [ ], Northern Rock agreed to sell your mortgage to
Granite Finance Trustees Limited.
[Additional text will be allowed with the consent of the Mortgages Trustee and
the Funding Security Trustees]
Yours faithfully,
Northern Rock plc
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SCHEDULE 9
OFFER UNDER CLAUSE 8.6 (REPURCHASE OF FIXED RATE MORTGAGE LOANS)
To: Northern Rock plc
Northern Rock House
Gosforth
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE3 4PL
From: Granite Finance Trustees Limited
22 Grenville Street
St Helier
Jersey
Channel Islands
JE4 8PX
Date: [ ]
Pursuant to Clause 8.6 (Repurchase of Fixed Rate Mortgage Loans) of the mortgage
sale agreement dated 26 March 2001 made between, amongst others, (1) Northern
Rock plc and (2) Granite Finance Trustees Limited (as amended, varied,
supplemented or novated from time to time the "Agreement") we hereby offer to
re-sell to you the Mortgage Loan(s) together with their Related Security,
details of which are set out in the attached print out, if such Mortgage Loan(s)
become Re-Fixed Mortgage Loans within 3 months of the expiry of the relevant
initial fixed rate periods applicable to that/those Mortgage Loans. If you wish
to do so, please accept this offer by payment to us of the consideration for the
repurchase of the relevant Mortgage Loan(s) and Related Security in accordance
with Clause 8.6 (Repurchase of Fixed Rate Mortgage Loans) of the Agreement if
such Mortgage Loan(s) become Re-Fixed Mortgage Loans within 3 months of the
expiry of the relevant initial fixed rate periods applicable to that/those
Mortgage Loans. Capitalised terms used in this notice and not defined herein
have the meanings given to them in the Agreement.
Signed for and on behalf of )
GRANITE FINANCE TRUSTEES )
LIMITED )
as Seller )
[acting as its attorney NORTHERN ROCK PLC:] )
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SCHEDULE 10
Part 1
POWER OF ATTORNEY IN FAVOUR OF
THE MORTGAGES TRUSTEE, FUNDING AND THE SECURITY TRUSTEE
THIS DEED OF POWER OF ATTORNEY is made on the [o] by:
(1) NORTHERN ROCK PLC whose registered office is at Northern Rock House,
Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne NE3 4PL (registered number 3273685) in its
capacity as Seller,
in favour of each of:
(2) GRANITE FINANCE TRUSTEES LIMITED whose registered office is at 22
Grenville Street, St. Helier, Jersey JE4 8PX, Channel Islands (registered
number 79309) in its capacity as Mortgages Trustee;
(3) GRANITE FINANCE FUNDING LIMITED, acting out of its branch office
established in England (registered overseas company number FC022999 and
branch number BR005916) at 69 Park Lane, Croydon CR9 1TQ and
(4) THE BANK OF NEW YORK a New York Banking Corporation whose London branch
address is at 48th Floor, One Canada Square, London E14 5AL in its
capacity as Security Trustee.
WHEREAS:
(A) By virtue of a mortgage sale agreement (the "Mortgage Sale Agreement")
dated 26 March 2001 and as subsequently amended, and made between (1) the
Seller, (2) the Mortgages Trustee (3) Funding and (4) the Security
Trustee, provision was made for the execution by the Seller of this Power
of Attorney.
NOW THIS DEED WITNESSETH:
1. The provisions of the Programme Master Definitions Schedule signed for the
purposes of identification by Sidley Austin Brown & Wood and Allen & Overy
LLP on [o] (as the same have been and may be amended, varied or
supplemented from time to time with the consent of the parties hereto) are
expressly and specifically incorporated into and shall apply to this Deed.
2. The Seller irrevocably and by way of security for the performance of the
covenants, conditions and undertakings on the part of the Seller contained
in the Mortgage Sale Agreement and the Administration Agreement HEREBY
APPOINTS each of Funding, the Mortgages Trustee and the Security Trustee
(each an "Attorney") and any receiver and/or administrator appointed from
time to time in respect of Funding and/or the Mortgages Trustee or their
assets severally to be its true and lawful attorney for the Seller and in
the Seller's name or otherwise to do any act, matter or thing which any
Attorney considers necessary for the protection or preservation of
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that Attorney's interest in the Mortgage Loans, the Mortgages, the
Mortgage Deeds and their Related Security or which ought to be done under
the covenants, undertakings and provisions contained in the Mortgage Sale
Agreement including (without limitation) any or all of the following that
is to say:
(a) to exercise its rights, powers and discretions under the Mortgage
Loans, the Mortgages, the Mortgage Deeds and the Related Security
including the right to fix the rate or rates of interest payable
under the Mortgage Loans in accordance with the terms thereof
(including whilst such Mortgage Loans subsist and subject to the
consent of the Mortgages Trustee being given to the setting of such
rates), setting the Standard Variable Rate of the Seller, such other
discretionary rates and margins applicable to the Mortgage Loans and
(other than in respect of the Security Trustee) the rate of (and
terms relating to) the Existing Borrowers' Re-Fix Rate in the
circumstances referred to in Clause 4 (Interest Rates) of the
Administration Agreement provided that nothing in this Clause shall
prevent the Seller (or any of its attorneys from time to time) from
setting higher rates (and in the case of the Existing Borrowers'
Re-Fix Rate, imposing terms more advantageous to the Mortgages
Trustee) than those set or to be set or required or to be required
by the Mortgages Trustee or Funding under this power of attorney;
(b) to exercise all the powers exercisable by the Seller by reason of
its remaining for the time being the registered owner at the Land
Registry or registered or recorded heritable creditor in the
Registers of Scotland of any of the Mortgage Loans, the Mortgages,
the Mortgage Deeds and the Related Security and in particular, but
without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, to make
Further Advances to Borrowers;
(c) to demand, sue for and receive all moneys due or payable under the
Mortgage Loans, the Mortgages, the Mortgage Deeds and the Related
Security or any such collateral security or related rights;
(d) to execute, sign, seal and deliver (using the company seal of the
Seller where appropriate) a conveyance, assignation or transfer of
the Mortgage Loans, the Mortgages, the Mortgage Deeds and the
Related Security or any of them to the Mortgages Trustee and its
successors in title or other person or persons entitled to the
benefit thereof;
(e) to execute, sign, seal and deliver (using the company seal of the
Seller where appropriate) a conveyance, assignment, assignation or
transfer of the Related Security or any item comprised therein (to
the extent only that such item or items relate to the Mortgage
Loans) to the Mortgages Trustee and its successors in title or other
person or persons entitled to the benefit thereof or entitled to be
registered or recorded at the Land Registry or the Registers of
Scotland as proprietor or heritable creditor thereof (as the case
may be);
(f) to discharge the Mortgages or the Related Security or any of them
and to sign, seal, deliver and execute such receipts, releases,
surrenders, instruments and deeds as may be required or advisable in
order to discharge the relevant Mortgaged Property or Properties
from the Mortgages or any of them; and
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(g) to do every other act or thing which the Seller is obliged to do
under the Mortgage Sale Agreement or which that Attorney may
otherwise consider to be necessary proper or expedient for fully and
effectually vesting or transferring the interests sold thereunder in
the Mortgage Loans, the Mortgages, the Mortgage Deeds and their
Related Security or any or each of them and/or the Seller's estate
right and title therein or thereto in the Mortgages Trustee and its
successors in title or other person or persons entitled to the
benefit thereof (as the case may be) in the same manner and as fully
and effectually in all respects as the Seller could have done.
3. Each Attorney shall have the power by writing under its hand by an officer
of the Attorney from time to time to appoint a substitute who shall have
power to act on behalf of the Seller as if that substitute shall have been
originally appointed Attorney by this deed (including, without limitation,
the power of further substitution) and/or to revoke any such appointment
at any time without assigning any reason therefor.
4. The laws of England shall apply to this deed and the interpretation
thereof and to all acts of the Attorney carried out or purported to be
carried out under the terms hereof.
5. The Seller hereby agrees at all times hereafter to ratify and confirm
whatsoever the said Attorney or its attorneys shall lawfully do or cause
to be done in and concerning the Mortgage Loans, the Mortgages or the
Mortgage Deeds or their Related Security by virtue of this deed.
IN WITNESS whereof the Seller has executed this document as a deed the day and
year first before written.
EXECUTED under THE COMMON SEAL of )
NORTHERN ROCK PLC )
affixed in the presence of: )
- ------------------------------
Authorised Signatory
Name:
Title:
- ------------------------------
Authorised Signatory
Name:
Title:
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SCHEDULE 10
Part 2
POWER OF ATTORNEY IN FAVOUR OF
THE MORTGAGES TRUSTEE, EACH FUNDING BENEFICIARY AND EACH FUNDING SECURITY
TRUSTEE
THIS DEED OF POWER OF ATTORNEY is made on the [o] by:
(1) NORTHERN ROCK PLC whose registered office is at Northern Rock House,
Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne NE3 4PL (registered number 3273685) in its
capacity as Seller,
in favour of each of:
(2) GRANITE FINANCE TRUSTEES LIMITED whose registered office is at 22
Grenville Street, St. Helier, Jersey JE4 8PX, Channel Islands (registered
number 79309) in its capacity as Mortgages Trustee;
(3) GRANITE FINANCE FUNDING LIMITED, acting out of its branch office
established in England (registered overseas company number FC022999 and
branch number BR005916) at 69 Park Lane, Croydon CR9 1TQ
(4) GRANITE FINANCE FUNDING 2 LIMITED whose registered office is at Fifth
Floor, 100 Wood Street, London EC2V 7EX; and
(5) THE BANK OF NEW YORK a New York Banking Corporation whose London branch
address is at 48th Floor, One Canada Square, London E14 5AL in its
capacities as Security Trustee and as Funding 2 Security Trustee.
WHEREAS:
(A) By virtue of a mortgage sale agreement (the "Mortgage Sale Agreement")
dated 26 March 2001 and made between (1) the Seller, (2) the Mortgages
Trustee (3) Funding and (4) the Security Trustee and as subsequently
amended to, amongst other things, include Funding 2 and the Funding 2
Security Trustee as parties thereto, provision was made for the execution
by the Seller of this Power of Attorney.
(B) NOW THIS DEED WITNESSETH:
1. The provisions of the Programme Master Definitions Schedule signed for the
purposes of identification by Sidley Austin Brown & Wood and Allen & Overy
LLP on 19 January (as the same have been and may be amended, varied or
supplemented from time to time with the consent of the parties hereto) are
expressly and specifically incorporated into and shall apply to this Deed.
2. The Seller irrevocably and by way of security for the performance of the
covenants, conditions and undertakings on the part of the Seller contained
in the Mortgage Sale Agreement and the Administration Agreement HEREBY
APPOINTS each of Funding, Funding 2, the Mortgages Trustee, the Security
Trustee and the Funding 2 Security Trustee (each an "Attorney") and any
receiver and/or administrator
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appointed from time to time in respect of Funding, Funding 2 and/or the
Mortgages Trustee or their assets severally to be its true and lawful
attorney for the Seller and in the Seller's name or otherwise to do any
act, matter or thing which any Attorney considers necessary for the
protection or preservation of that Attorney's interest in the Mortgage
Loans, the Mortgages, the Mortgage Deeds and their Related Security or
which ought to be done under the covenants, undertakings and provisions
contained in the Mortgage Sale Agreement including (without limitation)
any or all of the following that is to say:
(a) to exercise its rights, powers and discretions under the Mortgage
Loans, the Mortgages, the Mortgage Deeds and the Related Security
including the right to fix the rate or rates of interest payable
under the Mortgage Loans in accordance with the terms thereof
(including whilst such Mortgage Loans subsist and subject to the
consent of the Mortgages Trustee being given to the setting of such
rates), setting the Standard Variable Rate of the Seller, such other
discretionary rates and margins applicable to the Mortgage Loans and
(other than in respect of the Funding Security Trustees) the rate of
(and terms relating to) the Existing Borrowers' Re-Fix Rate in the
circumstances referred to in Clause 4 (Interest Rates) of the
Administration Agreement provided that nothing in this Clause shall
prevent the Seller (or any of its attorneys from time to time) from
setting higher rates (and in the case of the Existing Borrowers'
Re-Fix Rate, imposing terms more advantageous to the Mortgages
Trustee) than those set or to be set or required or to be required
by the Mortgages Trustee, Funding or Funding 2 (and their respective
Funding Security Trustee) under this power of attorney;
(b) to exercise all the powers exercisable by the Seller by reason of
its remaining for the time being the registered owner at the Land
Registry or registered or recorded heritable creditor in the
Registers of Scotland of any of the Mortgage Loans, the Mortgages,
the Mortgage Deeds and the Related Security and in particular, but
without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, to make
Further Advances to Borrowers;
(c) to demand, sue for and receive all moneys due or payable under the
Mortgage Loans, the Mortgages, the Mortgage Deeds and the Related
Security or any such collateral security or related rights;
(d) to execute, sign, seal and deliver (using the company seal of the
Seller where appropriate) a conveyance, assignation or transfer of
the Mortgage Loans, the Mortgages, the Mortgage Deeds and the
Related Security or any of them to the Mortgages Trustee and its
successors in title or other person or persons entitled to the
benefit thereof;
(e) to execute, sign, seal and deliver (using the company seal of the
Seller where appropriate) a conveyance, assignment, assignation or
transfer of the Related Security or any item comprised therein (to
the extent only that such item or items relate to the Mortgage
Loans) to the Mortgages Trustee and its successors in title or other
person or persons entitled to the benefit thereof or entitled to be
registered or recorded at the Land Registry or the Registers of
Scotland as proprietor or heritable creditor thereof (as the case
may be);
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(f) to discharge the Mortgages or the Related Security or any of them
and to sign, seal, deliver and execute such receipts, releases,
surrenders, instruments and deeds as may be required or advisable in
order to discharge the relevant Mortgaged Property or Properties
from the Mortgages or any of them; and
(g) to do every other act or thing which the Seller is obliged to do
under the Mortgage Sale Agreement or which that Attorney may
otherwise consider to be necessary proper or expedient for fully and
effectually vesting or transferring the interests sold thereunder in
the Mortgage Loans, the Mortgages, the Mortgage Deeds and their
Related Security or any or each of them and/or the Seller's estate
right and title therein or thereto in the Mortgages Trustee and its
successors in title or other person or persons entitled to the
benefit thereof (as the case may be) in the same manner and as fully
and effectually in all respects as the Seller could have done.
3. Each Attorney shall have the power by writing under its hand by an officer
of the Attorney from time to time to appoint a substitute who shall have
power to act on behalf of the Seller as if that substitute shall have been
originally appointed Attorney by this deed (including, without limitation,
the power of further substitution) and/or to revoke any such appointment
at any time without assigning any reason therefor.
4. The laws of England shall apply to this deed and the interpretation
thereof and to all acts of the Attorney carried out or purported to be
carried out under the terms hereof.
5. The Seller hereby agrees at all times hereafter to ratify and confirm
whatsoever the said Attorney or its attorneys shall lawfully do or cause
to be done in and concerning the Mortgage Loans, the Mortgages or the
Mortgage Deeds or their Related Security by virtue of this deed.
IN WITNESS whereof the Seller has executed this document as a deed the day
and year first before written.
EXECUTED under THE COMMON SEAL of )
NORTHERN ROCK PLC )
affixed in the presence of: )
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Authorised Signatory
Name:
Title:
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Name:
Title:
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SCHEDULE 11
FORM OF SCOTTISH TRUST DEED
DECLARATION OF TRUST
among
NORTHERN ROCK PLC, incorporated under the Companies Acts in England (registered
number 3273685), having its registered office at Northern Rock House, Gosforth,
Newcastle upon Tyne NE3 4PL (in its capacity as seller of the Mortgage Loans,
the "Seller" and, in its capacity as a beneficiary of the Mortgages Trust, the
"Seller Beneficiary");
GRANITE FINANCE TRUSTEES LIMITED, incorporated under the laws of Jersey
(registered number 79309), and having its registered office at 22 Grenville
Street, St. Helier, Jersey, JE4 8PX, Channel Islands (the "Mortgages Trustee");
GRANITE FINANCE FUNDING LIMITED, incorporated under the laws of Jersey
(registered number 79308), but acting out of its branch office established in
England (registered overseas company number FC022999 and branch number BR005916)
at 69 Park Lane, Croydon CR9 1TQ ("Funding"); and
GRANITE FINANCE FUNDING 2 LIMITED, incorporated under the laws of England and
Wales (registered number 5249387) and having its registered office at Fifth
Floor, 100 Wood Street, London EC2V 7EX ("Funding 2" and, together with Funding,
each in its capacity as a beneficiary of the Mortgages Trust, the "Funding
Beneficiaries" and, together with the Seller Beneficiary, the "Beneficiaries"
and each a "Beneficiary").
WHEREAS:
(A) Title to the Scottish Trust Property referred to below is held by and
vested in the Seller;
(B) In terms of the Mortgages Trust Deed entered into among the Seller,
Funding and the Mortgages Trustee dated 26 March 2001 (as amended,
restated, varied, supplemented or novated from time to time, the
"Mortgages Trust Deed") and the Mortgages Trust constituted in terms
thereof the Mortgages Trustee holds the Trust Property on trust for the
Beneficiaries;
(C) In terms of the Mortgage Sale Agreement entered into among the Seller, the
Mortgages Trustee, Funding and the Security Trustee dated 26 March 2001
(as amended, restated, varied, supplemented or novated from time to time,
the "Mortgage Sale Agreement") the Seller has agreed to sell and assign
the Scottish Trust Property to the Mortgages Trustee to be held thereafter
by the Mortgages Trustee under and in terms of the Mortgages Trust; and
(D) In implementation of Clause 4.4 of the Mortgage Sale Agreement and pending
the taking of legal title to the Scottish Trust Property by the Mortgages
Trustee, the Seller has undertaken to grant this deed;
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NOW THEREFORE the parties HEREBY AGREE and DECLARE as follows:
1 Interpretation
In this deed:-
1.1 The provisions of the Programme Master Definitions Schedule signed for the
purposes of identification by Sidley Austin Brown & Wood and Allen & Overy
LLP on [o], 2005 (as the same have been and may be amended, varied or
supplemented from time to time with the consent of the parties hereto) are
expressly and specifically incorporated into and shall apply to this deed,
including the recitals hereto; and
1.2 "Scottish Trust Property" shall mean the Scottish Mortgage Loans and the
Scottish Mortgages and other Related Security relative thereto brief
particulars of which are detailed in the schedule annexed and executed as
relative hereto, together with:
a) all principal sums (including all Further Advances, Further Draws
and Re-Draws), interest and expenses, present or future, comprised
therein and secured thereby and the right to demand, recover,
receive and give receipts for the same;
b) the Seller's whole right and interest in the Mortgaged Properties
secured by the said Scottish Mortgages;
c) all rights of action of the Seller against any person in connection
with any report, valuation, opinion, certificate, consent or other
statement of fact or opinion given in connection with any of the
said Scottish Mortgage Loans and their Related Security;
d) all powers and remedies for enforcing the said Scottish Mortgage
Loans and their Related Security and all proceeds resulting
therefrom; and
e) all other monies, rights, interests, benefits and others pertaining
thereto or deriving therefrom, including the benefit and proceeds of
any insurance policy pertaining thereto.
2 Declaration of Trust
The Seller hereby DECLARES that from and after the date hereof it holds
and, subject to Clause 9 (Termination of Trust) hereof, shall henceforth
hold the Scottish Trust Property and its whole rights, title, benefit and
interest, present and future, therein and thereto in trust absolutely for
the Mortgages Trustee and its assignees (whether absolutely or in
security) whomsoever.
3 Intimation
The Seller hereby intimates to the Mortgages Trustee the coming into
effect of the trust hereby declared and created and the Mortgages Trustee
by its execution hereof immediately subsequent to the execution of this
Deed by the Seller acknowledges such intimation.
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4 Dealings with Trust Property and Negative Pledge
The Seller warrants and undertakes to the Mortgages Trustee that:
4.1 as at the date hereof, it holds (subject to any pending registration
or recording in the Registers of Scotland) legal title to the
Scottish Trust Property unencumbered by any fixed or floating charge
or other Security Interest;
4.2 it shall not create or agree to create any fixed or floating charge
or other Security Interest over or which may attach to or affect the
whole or any part of the Scottish Trust Property or otherwise
dispose of the same at any time when such property or part thereof
remains subject to the trust hereby created; and
4.3 it shall deal with the Scottish Trust Property (including without
limitation the calculation and setting of any interest rate
applicable thereto) in accordance with the provisions of the
Transaction Documents and the specific written instructions (if any)
of the Mortgages Trustee or its foresaids and shall take, subject to
Clause 9 (Termination of Trust) hereof, any such action as may be
necessary (including without limitation the raising or defending of
any proceedings in any court of law whether in Scotland or
elsewhere) to secure or protect the title to the Scottish Trust
Property but only in accordance with the specific written
instructions (if any) of the Mortgages Trustee or its foresaids.
5 Change of Trustee
Except with the prior written consent of the Mortgages Trustee or its
foresaids and (for so long as each retains any right or interest in the
Scottish Trust Property) the Funding Beneficiaries and the Funding
Security Trustees, the Seller shall not be entitled to resign office as a
trustee or assume a new trustee or trustees under this Deed.
6 Power of Beneficiary
6.1 The Mortgages Trustee, as beneficiary hereunder, shall have the
right in the circumstances stated in Clause 6 (Perfection of the
Assignment) of the Mortgage Sale Agreement to complete its title to
the Scottish Trust Property or any part thereof or to call upon the
Seller to execute and deliver to the Mortgages Trustee or its
foresaids valid assignations and transfers (including where
applicable Scottish Transfers) of the Scottish Trust Property or any
part thereof, and that notwithstanding the winding-up of the Seller
or the administration of the Seller, or the appointment of any
receiver to all or any part of the Scottish Trust Property.
6.2 Without prejudice to the generality of Clause 6.1, the Seller
undertakes to the Mortgages Trustee and binds and obliges itself
that, upon the occurrence of any one of the events specified in
Clause 6.1(a) to (f) of the Mortgage Sale Agreement, it will within
five London Business Days of such occurrence provide such
information as is necessary to enable the Mortgages Trustee to
complete Scottish Transfers (including all schedules and annexures
thereto) in relation to the whole of the Scottish Mortgages
comprised within the Scottish Trust Property.
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6.3 For further assuring the said rights and powers specified in this
Clause 6, the Seller has granted a power of attorney in favour of
the Mortgages Trustee, each Funding Beneficiary and each Funding
Security Trustee substantially in the form set out in Schedule 10 to
the Mortgage Sale Agreement.
7 Mortgages Trustee Declaration of Trust
7.1 The Mortgages Trustee by its said execution of this Deed hereby
DECLARES that its whole right, title and beneficial interest in and
to the Scottish Trust Property in terms of this Deed are and shall
be held (to the extent not already so held) by the Mortgages Trustee
under and in terms of the Mortgages Trust and all monies received or
held by the Mortgages Trustee relating thereto or deriving therefrom
have been and shall be comprised in the Trust Property as defined in
the Mortgages Trust Deed and shall be subject to and administered by
the whole terms and conditions of the Mortgages Trust Deed and the
Administration Agreement.
7.2 Each of the Seller and the Beneficiaries hereby acknowledge, accept
and agree to the declaration constituted by and the whole other
terms and conditions of the foregoing Clause 7.1.
8 Mortgages Trust Intimation
The Mortgages Trustee hereby intimates to the Beneficiaries of the
Mortgages Trust, the declaration of trust made in terms of Clause 7
(Mortgages Trustee Declaration of Trust) hereof and the Beneficiaries of
the Mortgages Trust by their respective executions of this Deed
acknowledge such intimation.
9 Termination of Trust
If at any time during the subsistence of the trust hereby declared and
created:
9.1 full legal title to any part or parts of the Scottish Trust Property
is taken by the Mortgages Trustee or its foresaids in accordance
with the provisions of Clause 6 (Perfection of the Assignment) of
the Mortgage Sale Agreement (which in the case of any Scottish
Mortgage shall be constituted by the registration or recording of
the title thereto in the Registers of Scotland); or
9.2 any Scottish Mortgage Loan and Related Security comprised within the
Scottish Trust Property has been repurchased by the Seller pursuant
to Clauses 8.4 to 8.6 (inclusive) of the Mortgage Sale Agreement; or
9.3 any such Scottish Mortgage Loan and Related Security has been
redeemed in full and therefore no longer forms part of the Mortgage
Portfolio; then
the trust hereby declared and created shall (but only when the relevant
events or transaction have been completed irrevocably, validly and full)
ipso facto fall and cease to be of effect in respect of such part or parts
of the Scottish Trust Property but shall continue in full force and effect
in respect of the whole remainder (if any) of the Scottish Trust Property.
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10 Variation
This Deed and the trust hereby declared and created shall not be varied in
any respect without the consent in writing of the Mortgages Trustee or its
foresaids and (for so long as each retains any right or interest in the
Scottish Trust Property) each Funding Beneficiary and each Funding
Security Trustee.
11 Governing Law
11.1 This Deed shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with,
Scots law, other than Clause 7 (Mortgages Trustee Declaration of
Trust) hereof which shall be governed by, and construed in
accordance with, English law.
11.2 The parties hereto submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the
Scottish courts so far as not already subject thereto and waive any
right or plea of forum non conveniens in respect of such
jurisdiction.
12 Registration
The parties consent to the registration of this deed for preservation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF these presents consisting of this and the preceding [four]
pages together with the Schedule hereto are subscribed by the Seller, the
Mortgages Trustee, Funding and Funding 2 as follows:
As Seller and as Seller Beneficiary:
SUBSCRIBED by
NORTHERN ROCK PLC
acting by:
.......................... Director ................ Director
(Print Full Name) (Signature)
.......................... Director/ ................ Director/
(Print Full Name) Secretary (Signature) Secretary
all together at
on
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As Mortgages Trustee:
SUBSCRIBED by
GRANITE FINANCE TRUSTEES LIMITED
acting by:
.......................... Director ................ Director
(Print Full Name) (Signature)
.......................... Director/ ................ Director/
(Print Full Name) Secretary (Signature) Secretary
all together at
on
As Funding and as a Funding Beneficiary:
SUBSCRIBED by
GRANITE FINANCE FUNDING LIMITED
acting by:
.......................... Director ................ Director
(Print Full Name) (Signature)
.......................... Director/ ................ Director/
(Print Full Name) Secretary (Signature) Secretary
all together at
on
As Funding 2 and as a Funding Beneficiary:
SUBSCRIBED by
GRANITE FINANCE FUNDING 2 LIMITED
acting by:
.......................... Director ................ Director
(Print Full Name) (Signature)
.......................... Director/ ................ Director/
(Print Full Name) Secretary (Signature) Secretary
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This is the Schedule to the foregoing Scottish Trust Deed between Northern Rock
PLC, Granite Finance Trustees Limited, Granite Finance Funding Limited and
Granite Finance Funding 2 Limited
Scottish Mortgage Loans and Related Security
1 2 3 4
Account No. Property Address Name(s) Date of Mortgage
Completion
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SCHEDULE 12
LENDING CRITERIA (1)
General
To proceed with obtaining a Mortgage Loan, each prospective Borrower completes
an application form (or submits an application on-line) which includes
information with respect to the applicant's income from all sources, current
employment details, bank account information (where the Borrower has a bank
account), current mortgage information (if applicable) and certain other
personal information. A credit reference agency search is made against each
prospective Borrower at their current address and, if necessary, former
addresses, in all cases which will give details of any public information which
includes county court judgements and details of any bankruptcy.
Employment details
The Seller generally operates the following policy in respect of the
verification of a prospective Borrower's income details. Under this policy,
prospective Borrowers are categorised as either "employed" or "self-employed" by
the Seller.
Proof of income for employed prospective Borrowers applying for Mortgage Loans
may typically be established by:
(a) three monthly payslips from the six month period prior to the date of the
loan application plus the Borrower's most recent form P60 (in the case of
a prospective Borrower with a low credit score);
(b) two monthly payslips from the six month period prior to the date of the
loan application plus the Borrower's most recent form P60 (in the case of
a prospective Borrower with a medium credit score); or
(c) the Borrower's most recent monthly payslip (in the case of a prospective
Borrower with a high credit score).
Proof of income for self-employed prospective Borrowers may be established by:
(a) a certificate from the Borrower's accountant in acceptable form, the
Borrower's accounts for the three years prior to the date of the loan
application or the Borrower's tax assessments for the three years prior to
the date of the loan application (in the case of a prospective Borrower
with a low credit score); or
(b) a certificate from the Borrower's accountant in acceptable form, the
Borrower's accounts for the two years prior to the date of the loan
application or the Borrower's tax assessments for the two years prior to
the date of the loan application (in the case of a prospective borrower
with a medium or high credit score).
Under the Seller's fast track program, income is accepted as stated by the
prospective Borrower without further proof once positive identification of the
Borrower is provided and the Borrower has passed the Seller's credit scoring
test. Currently, in order to be eligible for
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(1) These Lending Criteria apply to Mortgage Loans other than Personal Secured
Loans.
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the fast track program, the Seller requires that a prospective Borrower attain a
high or medium credit score, have a valuation made on the Mortgaged Property,
have a property value of at least (GBP)100,000 and be applying for a Mortgage
Loan with an LTV ratio no greater than 85% (or no greater than 80% in the case
of Mortgage Loans in excess of (GBP)1,000,000). First time buyers, Borrowers
with low credit scores, Borrowers employed less than six months and borrowers of
Together Mortgage Loans are ineligible for a fast track Mortgage Loan. The
eligibility requirements for the Seller's fast track program are subject to
change from time to time. Notwithstanding these procedures, the Seller carries
out reasonability checks on all non verified applications and retains the right
to require proof of income or other credit related information in any case it
deems necessary.
Valuation
The Seller requires that a valuation of the Mortgaged Property be obtained
either from its in-house valuation department or from an independent firm of
professional valuers selected from a panel of approved valuers. Details of
professional indemnity insurance held by panel valuers are kept by the Seller.
All valuations of Properties are reviewed by the person underwriting the
Mortgage Loan and/or the valuation team.
Property Types
The Seller applies the criteria set out below in determining the eligibility of
Properties to serve as security for Mortgage Loans. Under these criteria,
eligible property types include freehold, heritable and leasehold houses,
leasehold and heritable flats and mixed commercial and residential use
properties where there is a separate entrance for the residential part of the
Mortgaged Property. In the case of a Mortgage Loan secured by a leasehold
property, the Seller requires that the unexpired term of the lease be at least
30 years from the end of the agreed mortgage term.
Certain property types falling outside the criteria may be considered on a case
by case basis. However, certain property types will not be considered for the
purposes of providing security for a Mortgage Loan. The types of property
falling within this category comprise freehold flats (in England and Wales),
shared ownership or shared equity schemes and properties of non-standard
construction of a type considered to be defective.
Loan Amount
Generally, the maximum loan amount is (GBP)2,000,000, but this varies according
to the application in question. In exceptional cases, this limit may be
exceeded.
Term
Each Mortgage Loan must have an initial term of between 7 and 30 years (in the
case of a Together Connections Mortgage Loan) or between 7 and 35 years in the
case of all other Mortgage Loans.
Age of applicant
The first named Borrower in respect of a Together Mortgage Loan or a Together
Connections Mortgage Loan must be aged 21 or over. All Borrowers in respect of
all other Mortgage Loans must be aged 18 or over.. There are no maximum age
limits.
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Status of applicant(s)
The maximum loan amount of the Mortgage Loan(s) under a Mortgage Account is
determined by a number of factors, including the prospective Borrower's income.
In determining income, the Seller includes basic salary along with performance
or profit-related pay, allowances, mortgage subsidies, pensions, annuities,
overtime, bonus and commission.
The Seller will deduct the annual cost of existing commitments of twelve months
or more from the prospective Borrower's gross income. Positive proof of the
applicant's identity and address is obtained in all cases.
In cases where a prospective Borrower's requests that the Seller takes a
secondary income into account, the Seller will consider the sustainability of
the prospective Borrower's work hours, the similarity of the jobs and/or skills,
the commuting time and distance between jobs, the length of employment at both
positions and whether the salary is consistent with the type of employment. The
Seller will determine, after assessing the above factors, if it is appropriate
to use both incomes. If so, a portion of the secondary income will be used as
part of the normal income calculation.
Where there are two prospective Borrowers, the Seller adds joint incomes
together for the purposes of calculating the prospective Borrowers' total
income. In determining the loan amount available to the applicants the Seller
may use the higher of the joint income multiplied by the appropriate income
multiple or the highest of the two incomes multiplied by the appropriate income
multiple plus the lower income. The Seller may, at its discretion, consider the
income of one additional prospective Borrower as well, but only at a maximum
income multiple of 1.
The Seller may exercise discretion within its lending criteria in applying those
factors that are used to determine the maximum amount a prospective Borrower can
borrow. Accordingly, these parameters may vary for some Mortgage Loans. The
Seller may take the following into account when applying discretion: credit
score result, existing customer relationship, LTV and total income needed to
support the Mortgage Loan.
Credit history
(a) Credit search
A credit search is carried out in respect of all prospective Borrowers.
Applications may be declined where an adverse credit history (for example,
county court judgment (or the Scottish equivalent), default or bankruptcy
notice) is revealed.
(b) Existing lender's reference
In some cases the Seller may seek a reference from any existing and/or
previous lender. Any reference must satisfy the Seller that the account
has been properly conducted and that no history of material arrears
exists. The Seller may substitute the reference with the bureau record
obtained as a result of the credit search.
Scorecard
The Seller uses some of the criteria described here and various other criteria
to produce an overall score for the application that reflects a quantitative
measure of the risk of advancing
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the Mortgage Loan. The scorecard has been developed using the Seller's own data
and experience of its own Mortgage accounts. The lending policies and processes
are determined centrally to ensure consistency in the management and monitoring
of credit risk exposure. Full use is made of software technology in credit
scoring new applications. Credit scoring applies statistical analysis to
publicly available data, closed user group data obtained from credit reference
agencies and customer-provided data to assess the likelihood of a mortgage
account going into arrears. The Seller also uses behavioral scoring, which uses
customer data on existing accounts and closed user group data obtained from
credit reference agencies to make further lending decisions, calculate
impairment allowances and prioritize action in case of arrears.
The Seller reserves the right to decline an application that has achieved a
passing score. The Seller does have an appeals process if a prospective Borrower
believes that his/her application has been unfairly declined. It is the Seller's
policy to allow only authorized individuals to exercise discretion in granting
variances from the scorecard.
Discretion to lend outside Lending Criteria
On a case-by-case basis, and within approved limits as detailed in the Seller's
lending policy, the Seller may have determined that, based upon compensating
factors, a prospective Borrower who did not strictly qualify under its lending
criteria warranted an underwriting exception. Compensating factors may include,
but are not limited to, a low LTV ratio, stable employment and time in residence
at the applicant's current residence.
Maximum Loan To Value
The maximum LTV ratio permitted for prospective Borrowers applying for Mortgage
Loans secured by Mortgaged Properties valued up to (GBP)300,000 is 95% of the
lower of the purchase price or valuation of the Mortgaged Property determined by
the relevant valuation. The maximum LTV ratio permitted for prospective
Borrowers applying for Mortgage Loans secured by Mortgaged Properties valued up
to (GBP)1,000,000 is 90% of the lower of the purchase price or valuation of the
Mortgaged Property determined by the relevant valuation. The maximum LTV ratio
permitted for prospective Borrowers applying for Mortgage Loans secured by
Mortgaged Properties valued over (GBP)1,000,000 is 85% of the lower of the
purchase price or valuation of the Mortgaged Property determined by the relevant
valuation. The maximum LTV ratio permitted for prospective Borrowers applying
for Interest-Only Mortgage Loans (without a repayment vehicle) and Combination
Repayment and Interest-Only Mortgage Loans (without a repayment vehicle) is 75%
of the lower of the purchase price or valuation of the Mortgaged Property
determined by the relevant valuation.
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SCHEDULE 13
STANDARD DOCUMENTATION
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Document Description Northern Rock Period of Use
Document ID
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Mortgage Offer General Conditions
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Mortgage Offer General Conditions ADV6/0695 01/06/95-01/07/95
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Mortgage Offer General Conditions ADV6/0795 01/07/95-31/12/95
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Mortgage Offer General Conditions ADV6/0196 01/01/96-30/11/96
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Mortgage Offer General Conditions ADV6/1296 12/96
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Mortgage Offer General Conditions ADV6B/1296 01/12/96-30/09/97
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Mortgage Offer General Conditions ADV6/1097 01/10/97-31/12/97
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Mortgage Offer General Conditions ADV6B/1297 01/12/97-31/12/97
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Mortgage Offer General Conditions ADV6B/0198 01/01/98-31/05/98
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Mortgage Offer General Conditions ADV6B/0698 01/06/98-31/12/98
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Mortgage Offer General Conditions ADV6B/0199 01/01/99-31/08/99
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Mortgage Offer General Conditions ADV6B/0999 01/09/99-29/02/00
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Mortgage Offer General Conditions ADV6B/0300 01/03/00-31/08/00
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Mortgage Offer General Conditions OBA1/0900 01/09/00-31/12/00
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Mortgage Offer General Conditions OBS1/0900 01/09/00-31/12/00
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Mortgage Offer General Conditions OBA1/0101 01/01/01-30/06/01
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Mortgage Offer General Conditions OBS1/0101 01/01/01-30/06/01
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Mortgage Offer General Conditions ADV282/JULY2001 01/07/01-31/10/04
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Mortgage Offer General Conditions LEG5 11/2004 01/11/04-present
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Mortgage Conditions
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Northern Rock Building Society Rules GEN128/1.94 28/04/92-30/09/97
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Northern Rock Building Society Mortgage Conditions ADV72 06/95 01/06/95-31/07/97
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Northern Rock plc Mortgage Conditions ADV72 08/97 01/08/97-30/06/01
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Northern Rock plc Mortgage Conditions 2001 ADV276 /LEG3 01/07/01-present
07/2001
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Connections Conditions MAR631 27.11.02 29/11/02-present
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Together Connections Conditions MAR422 1.5.01 01/05/01-present
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Together Connections Conditions MAR422 7.8.02 07/08/02-present
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Northern Rock Scottish Mortgage Conditions 1995 SEC33/0296 01/02/96-30/09/97
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Northern Rock Scottish Mortgage Conditions 1997 SEC33/1097 01/10/97-31/10/00
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Northern Rock Scottish Mortgage Conditions 1997 SEC33/11.00 01/11/00-31/12/00
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Northern Rock plc Scottish Mortgage Conditions 2001 SEC 72/01.2001 01/01/01-30/06/01
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Northern Rock plc Scottish Mortgage Conditions 2001 SEC 72/07.01 01/07/01-present
LEG4 07/2001
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Together Connections Current Account Terms and Conditions N/A Undated
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Special Conditions
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Variable Mortgage Special Conditions Various Various
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Fixed Rate Mortgage Special Conditions Various Various
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Capped Rate Mortgage Special Conditions Various Various
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Discount Rate Mortgage Special Conditions Various Various
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Tracker Rate Mortgage Special Conditions Various Various
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CAT Mortgage Special Conditions Various Various
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Cashback Mortgage Special Conditions Various Various
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Connections Mortgage Special Conditions Various Various
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Together Mortgage Special Conditions Various Various
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Together Connections Mortgage Special Conditions Various Various
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Miscellaneous Special Conditions Various Various
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Mortgage Deeds
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Mortgage Deed SEC 8/06.95 01/06/95-31/07/97
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Mortgage Deed (Transitional) SEC 8T/08.97 01/08/97-30/09/97
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Mortgage Deed SEC 8/10.97 01/10/97-30/06/01
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Mortgage Deed SEC 070 07/01 01/07/01-30/09/04
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Mortgage Deed SOL 11 07/01 01/07/01-30/09/04
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Mortgage Deed (Flexible Mortgages) LEG10 1.10.04 01/10/04-present
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Mortgage Deed (Standard) LEG11 01/10/04-present
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Mortgage Deed (Together) SOL 1 01/10/99-31/07/00
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Mortgage Deed (Together) SOL 1 08/00 01/08/00-31/01/01
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Mortgage Deed (Together) MD542Q 01/02/99-31/01/01
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Mortgage Deed (Together) SOL 1 02/01 01/02/01-present
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Standard Security ADV58. 09/95 01/09/95-30/09/97
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Standard Security SEC 53 10/97 01/10/97-31/05/01
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Standard Security ADV278. 06/01 01/06/01-01/10/04
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Standard Security LEG13 1.10.04 01/10/04-present
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Standard Security (Together) SOL02 2000 Undated
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Personal Secured Loans Terms and Conditions
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the CCA 1974 (Personal ADV13506/95 01/06/95-
Secured Loans) (with Terms and Conditions attached)
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Loan Agreement (Flexible Plan) (with Terms and Conditions ADVCR2 01/07/95-
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act ADV 138 09/95 01/09/95-
1974 (Personal Secured Loan)
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the CCA 1974 (Flexible ACR1 07/96 01/07/96-
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act ACR1/1097 01/10/97-
1974 - Flexible Plan
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Loan Agreement - Flexible Plan ACR2/1097 01/10/97-
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act ADV135 10/97 01/10/97-
1974 - Personal Secured Loan
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act ADV138.10.97 01/10/97-
1974 (Personal Secured Loan)
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act MAR 127 01/06/98 01/06/98-
1974 (Personal Secured Loan)
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act MAR 126 6/98 01/06/98-
1974 - Fixed Rate
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act SEC54/04.98 01/04/98-
1974 (Omiga PSL Base)
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act SEC54/04.98 01/04/98-
1974 (Omiga PSL Fixed)
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act MAR 126 4/00 01/04/00-
1974 - Fixed Rate
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act MD1/0900 01/09/00-
1974 (Omiga Flexible Plan)
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act CA135A/0900 01/09/00-
1974 - Variable Rate
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act CA126A/0900 01/09/00-
1974 - Variable Rate
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Credit Agreement regulated by the Consumer Credit Act CA127/0900 01/09/00-
1974 - Original + 2 Copies
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act CA138/0900 01/09/00-
1974
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act ACR1/1000 01/10/00-
1974 - Flexible Plan
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Loan Agreement - Flexible Plan ACR2/1000 01/10/00-
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act CA125/0102 01/01/02-
1974 -
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act CA126/0103 01/01/03-
1974
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Loan Agreement (Flexible Plan) ACR1/0103 01/01/03-
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act ACR2/0103 01/01/03-
1974 (Flexible Plan)
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Credit Agreement Regulated by Consumer Credit Act 1974 ACR3/0103 01/01/03-
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Loan Agreement (Flexible Plan - Scotland) ACR4/0103 01/01/03-
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act 1974 CA127 01/03 01/01/03-
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act Flexible Plan 01/07/95-
1974 (Scotland) (Scotland) - ADVCR3
07/95
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Loan Agreement - Flexible Plan (Scotland) ADVCR4 07/95 01/07/95-
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act ADR3A-C/0796 01/07/96-
1974 - Flexible Plan (Scotland)
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act ADR3A-C/1097 01/10/97-
1974 - Flexible Plan (Scotland)
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Loan Agreement - Flexible Plan (Scotland) ACR4A-C/1097 01/10/97-
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Loan Agreement - Flexible Plan (Scotland) ACR4A-C/0298 01/02/98-
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act ACR3A-C/0798 01/07/98-
1974 - Flexible Plan (Scotland)
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act ACR3A-C/1000 01/10/00-
1974 - Flexible Plan (Scotland)
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Loan Agreement - Flexible Plan (Scotland) ACR4A-C/1000 01/10/00-
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Personal Secured Loans - Mortgage Deeds
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Mortgage Deed (HMLR filing ref MD 144 G) SEC 54/06/95 01/06/95-
Northern Rock Building Society
[Used for Flexible Plan - Non-CCA Loans]
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Mortgage Deed (relating to a Regulated Agreement under SEC 52/06/95 01/06/95-
the Consumer Credit Act 1974)
(HMLR filing ref MD 144 H)
Northern Rock Building Society
[Used for Flexible Plan CCA Loans]
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Mortgage Deed (HMLR filing ref MD 144 J) SEC 44/06/95 01/06/95-
Northern Rock Building Society
[Used for Flexible Plan - Non-CCA Loans]
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Mortgage Deed (relating to a Regulated Agreement under SEC 52. 10/97 01/10/97-
the Consumer Credit Act 1974)
(HMLR filing ref MD 542 M)
Northern Rock plc
[Used for Flexible Plan CCA Loans]
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Mortgage Deed (HMLR filing ref MD 542 L) SEC 44. 10/97 01/10/97-
Northern Rock plc
[Used for Flexible Plan - Non-CCA Loans]
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Mortgage Deed (HMLR filing ref 542 N) SEC 54. 10/97 01/10/97-
Northern Rock plc
[Used for Flexible Plan - Non-CCA Loans]
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Mortgage Deed (HMLR filing ref MD542 N) SEC 54. 04.98 01/04/98-
Northern Rock plc
[Used for Flexible Plan - Non-CCA Loans]
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Mortgage Deed (relating to a Regulated Agreement under SEC 52. 03/00 01/03/00-
the Consumer Credit Act 1974)
(HMLR filing ref MD 542 M)
Northern Rock plc
[Used for Flexible Plan CCA Loans]
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Mortgage Deed (HMLR filing ref MD 542L) MD2/0900 on cover 01/09/00-
Northern Rock plc and MD2B/0900 on
[Used for Flexible Plan - Non-CCA Loans] reverse
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Mortgage Deed (relating to a Regulated Agreement under MD1/0900 on cover 01/09/00-
the Consumer Credit Act 1974) and MD1B/0900 on
(HMLR filing ref MD 542 M) reverse
Northern Rock plc
[Used for Flexible Plan CCA Loans]
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Mortgage Deed (HMLR filing ref MD 542 N) MD3/0900 01/09/00-
Northern Rock plc
[Used for Flexible Plan - Non-CCA Loans]
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Together Credit/Loan Agreements
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act DDL/0299 01/02/99-
1974 - Drawdown Loan
[Used for Together Flexible Loans up to (GBP)25,000]
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act TFCA/1099 01/02/99-
1974 - Drawdown Loan
[Used for Together Flexible Loans up to (GBP)25,000]
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act TFIX/0200 01/02/00-
1974 - Together Fixed
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act TVCA/0200 01/02/00-
1974 - Together Variable
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act CATC/0502 01/05/02-
1974 - Drawdown Loan
[Used for Together Flexible Loans up to (GBP)25,000]
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act ABTC/0802 01/08/02-
1974 - Together Fixed
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act TVCAB/0902 01/90/02-
1974 - Together Variable
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act 1974 03/02 01/03/02-
"MPU" Drawdown Loan Agreement CATC/0502
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act ? 01/08/02-
1974 - Together Variable
"MPU" Unsecured Loan Agreement
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Credit Agreement Regulated by the Consumer Credit Act TFWT/0703 01/07/03-
1974 - Together Fixed with Tracker
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Deeds of Variation
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Deed of Variation of Mortgage and Receipt for Further SEC 40. 10/97 01/10/97-
Advance (HMLR filing ref MD 542 P)
Northern Rock plc
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Deed of Variation of Mortgage and Receipt for Further SOL005 09/00 01/09/00-
Advance (HMLR filing ref MD 542 X)
Northern Rock plc
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Deed of Variation of Mortgage and Receipt for Further SOL008 09/00 01/0901-
Advance (HMLR filing ref MD 542 Y)
Northern Rock plc
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Deed of Variation of Mortgage and Receipt for Further SEC071 July 2001 01/07/01-
Loan (HMLR filing ref MD 691 B)
Northern Rock plc
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Deed of Variation of Mortgage and Receipt for Further SOL012/ July 2001 01/07/01-
Loan (With Guarantor) (HMLR filing ref MD 691 C)
Northern Rock plc
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Deed of Variation of Mortgage and Receipt for Further MD691N 10/11/04-present
Loan (Scotland)
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Deed of Variation of Security and Receipt for Further ADV152./10.97 01/10/97-
Advance (Scotland)
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Deed of Variation of Security and Receipt for Further ADV152. 01/94 01/01/94-
Advance (Scotland)
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Deed of Variation of Security and Receipt for Further ADV152. 09/95 01/09/95-
Advance (Scotland)
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Deed of Variation of Security and Receipt for Further ADV152. 10/97 01/10/97-
Advance (Scotland)
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Deed of Variation of Security and Receipt for Further ADV281/05.01 01/05/01-
Advance (Scotland)
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Deed of Variation of Security and Receipt for Further ADV279 06/01 01/06/01-
Advance (with Guarantor) (Scotland)
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Deeds of Guarantee/Guarantors Confirmations
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Guarantors Confirmation (Existing Borrowers) ADV 266.7/97 01/07/97-
Northern Rock Building Society
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Guarantors Confirmation (Existing Borrowers) ADV 266.10/97 01/10/97-
Northern Rock Building Society
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Guarantors Confirmation ADV 265.10/97 01/10/97-
Northern Rock plc
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Guarantors Confirmation ADV 265.06/00 01/06/00-
Northern Rock plc
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Deed of Guarantee SOL013 / July 2001 01/07/01- present
Northern Rock plc
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Guarantors Confirmation NRDGC 05/02 01/05/02-
Northern Rock plc
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Deed of Guarantee (Scotland) ADV277 06/2001 01/06/01-present
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Occupiers Consents
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Agreement and Undertaking scjh0404/stand Undated
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Agreement and Undertaking (LIF)LIFE30 01/08/97-
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Agreement and Undertaking st/peps 01/10/97-
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Agreement and Undertaking JAGO3/0500 01/05/00-
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Agreement and Undertaking UNDERTAKE June 2000 01/06/00-
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Affidavit (re: Matrimonial Home/Occupancy Rights) ADV 77/1/87
(Scotland)
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Consent by Non-Entitled Spouse (Scotland) ADV 64. /09.95 01/09/95-
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Consent by Non-Entitled Spouse (Scotland) ADV64.10/97 01/10/97-
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Affidavit (re: Matrimonial Home/Occupancy Rights) ADV77/10.97 01/10/97-
(Scotland)
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Affidavit (re: Matrimonial Home/Occupancy Rights) ADV77 /07.00 01/07/00-
(Scotland)
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Consent by Non-Entitled Spouse (Pre 09/95) (Scotland) ADV 64 Undated
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Form re. Certificate of Consent (Scotland) (PLN)/PERS41 Undated
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Re-Advance/Further Advance Receipts
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Re-advance/Further Advance Receipt SEC 37/11/93
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Re-Advance/Further Advance Receipt SEC 37 /10.97 01/10/97-
Northern Rock plc
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Receipt for Further Advance ADV60./10.97 01/10/97-
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Re-Advance/Further Advance Receipt SEC37/07.01 01/97/01-
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Deeds of Postponement
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Deed of Postponement (relating to a Flexible Plan Loan FLEX06- 1995 1995-
regulated by the Consumer Credit Act 1974)
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Deed of Postponement (relating to a Flexible Plan Loan FLEX07- 1995 1995-
regulated by the Consumer Credit Act 1974)
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Deed of Postponement (relating to a Personal Secured PERS09- 1995 1995-
Loan regulated by the Consumer Credit Act 1974)
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Deed of Postponement (relating to a Personal Secured PERS10- 1995 1995-
Loan regulated by the Consumer Credit Act 1974)
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Deed of Postponement PERS20- 1995 1995-
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Deed of Postponement PERS21- 1995 1995-
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Postponed Standard Security SEC 53. 09/95 01/09/95-
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Deed of Postponement (relating to a Flexible Plan Loan (PLN)/FLEX07 - 01/10/95-
regulated by the Consumer Credit Act 1974) 01/10/1995
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Deed of Postponement (relating to a Personal Secured (PLN)/PERS09-01/10/19901/10/97-
Loan regulated by the Consumer Credit Act 1974)
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Deed of Postponement (relating to a Personal Secured (PLN)/PERS10-01/10/97 01/10/97-
Loan regulated by the Consumer Credit Act 1974)
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Deed of Postponement (PLN)/PERS21-01/10/19901/10/97-
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Postponed Standard Security SEC53.10/97 01/10/97
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Deed of Postponement (PLN)/PERS20 - 01/10/99-
01/10/1999
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Deed of Postponement (relating to a Personal Secured (PLN)/PERS10A - 2000 2000-
Loan regulated by the Consumer Credit Act 1974)
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Deed of Postponement (PLN)/PERS21A - 2000 2000-
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Deed of Postponement (relating to a Flexible Plan Loan (PLN)/FLEX07A - 2000 2000-
regulated by the Consumer Credit Act 1974)
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APPENDIX A
THE INITIAL MORTGAGE LOAN PORTFOLIO
Account No Property Address Name of Borrower(s) Date of Mortgage Current Balance
Completion
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