Exhibit 4(nn)
DATED: 13 July 2004
Deed of Charge Over Deposit Account
between
PCCW-HKT Telephone Limited
as Chargor
Standard Chartered Bank (HK) Ltd
[GRAPHIC TRANSLATION OMITTED]
as Issuing Bank
Standard Chartered Bank (HK) Ltd
[GRAPHIC TRANSLATION OMITTED]
as Account Bank
and
PCCW Limited
as Beneficiary
relating to
GUARANTEE FACILITY OF UP TO HK$780,000,000
CONTENTS
1. INTERPRETATION............................................................1
2. CHARGING CLAUSE...........................................................2
3. RESTRICTION ON REPAYMENT OF THE DEPOSIT(S)................................2
4. SUBORDINATION.............................................................3
5. POWERS EXERCISABLE BY THE ISSUING BANK IN RELATION TO THE DEPOSIT(S)......4
6. NEGATIVE PLEDGE...........................................................5
7. CONTINUING SECURITY.......................................................5
8. COSTS, CHARGES AND EXPENSES...............................................5
9. FORBEARANCE AND PARTIAL INVALIDITY........................................5
10. SERVICE OF DEMANDS AND NOTICES............................................6
11. ASSIGNMENT AND PARTICIPATION..............................................8
12. CONFLICT..................................................................8
13. FURTHER ASSURANCE.........................................................8
14. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION............................................8
THIS Deed of CHARGE is dated 13 July 2004 and made
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BETWEEN:
(1) PCCW-HKT TELEPHONE LIMITED, (the "Chargor" which expression shall include
its lawful successors, assigns and transferees), a company incorporated
under the laws of Hong Kong with company number 676 whose registered
address is at ▇▇/▇., ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, 979 King's Road, Quarry Bay,
Hong Kong.
(2) STANDARD CHARTERED BANK (HK) LTD [GRAPHIC TRANSLATION OMITTED], (the
"Issuing Bank") whose address is at ▇-▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇.
(3) STANDARD CHARTERED BANK (HK) LTD [GRAPHIC TRANSLATION OMITTED], (the
"Account Bank") whose address is at ▇-▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇.
(4) PCCW LIMITED, (the "Beneficiary"), a company incorporated under the laws of
Hong Kong with company number 69030 whose registered address is at ▇▇/▇.,
▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, 979 King's Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong.
WITNESSES as follows:
1. INTERPRETATION
1.1 In this Deed (including the Schedules), all defined terms have the meanings
as set out in the Facility Letter unless the context otherwise requires or
unless defined below to have the meanings respectively set opposite them:
"Deposit(s)" all sums of money specified in Schedule 1 to this Deed,
which shall include all or any part of the money
payable pursuant to such deposit(s) and the debt(s)
represented thereby;
"Facility Letter" the facility letter dated 13 July 2004 between PCCW-HKT
Telephone Limited (as Applicant), Standard Chartered
Bank (HK) Ltd [GRAPHIC TRANSLATION OMITTED] (as Issuing
Bank) and PCCW Limited (as Beneficiary) relating to the
Guarantee Facility of up to HK$780,000,000, which
expression shall include any amendments, supplements,
accessions, variations or additions to such facility
letter;
"Secured Sums" all money and liabilities now or in the future due,
owing or incurred to the Issuing Bank by the Chargor
under the Facility Letter, any Guarantees issued under
the Facility Letter and this Deed whether actually or
contingently and in whatever name or style, together
with all interest, discount, commission, fees, charges,
costs and expenses for which the Chargor or the
Beneficiary may be or become liable to the Issuing
Bank; and
"Security" the security constituted by this Deed.
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1.2 In this Deed, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) references to this Deed or any other document include references to this
Deed or such other document as varied, supplemented, restated and/or
replaced in any manner from time to time;
(b) subject to clause 12 (Assignment and Participation), references to any
party shall, where relevant, be deemed to be references to or to include,
as appropriate, its lawful successors, assignees or transferees;
(c) headings are inserted for convenience only and shall be ignored in
construing this Deed; and
(d) references to "the security" or "this security" means the security
constituted by this Deed.
2. CHARGING CLAUSE
2.1 The Chargor as legal and beneficial owner hereby charges to the Issuing
Bank by way of first fixed charge the Deposit(s), together with all
interest from time to time accruing on such Deposit(s) (if any), as
security for the payment or discharge of all Secured Sums.
2.2 The Chargor hereby assigns to the Issuing Bank for the purposes of, and to
give effect to this security, its right to require the Account Bank to
repay to it the Deposit(s) and to pay interest on such Deposit(s) to it.
2.3 For the avoidance of doubt, the Chargor agrees that this Deed is to operate
by way of security only in favour of the Issuing Bank and that no release
of any indebtedness existing now or in the future from the Issuing Bank or
the Account Bank to the Chargor is intended or effected by this Deed.
3. RESTRICTION ON REPAYMENT OF THE DEPOSIT(S)
3.1 The Chargor agrees that during the currency of this security and
notwithstanding any term (express or implied) pursuant to which any of the
Deposit(s) is or may be deposited with the Account Bank or paid to the
Account Bank or held by the Account Bank, such Deposit(s) shall only be
repayable upon written request or demand and the Chargor shall not be
entitled to make any request or demand upon the Issuing Bank or the Account
Bank for repayment of such Deposit(s) or for payment of interest on such
Deposit(s), unless the Issuing Bank shall first have agreed to release this
security insofar as it concerns such Deposit(s).
3.2 Notwithstanding the provisions of Clause 3.1, the Issuing Bank and the
Account Bank shall permit the Deposit(s) and interest on the Deposit(s) to
be repaid to the Chargor (and the Chargor shall be entitled to make a
request or demand upon the Issuing Bank and/or the Account Bank for
repayment of the Deposit(s) and interest on such Deposit(s)) upon the
relevant Guarantee issued by the Issuing Bank under the Facility Letter in
respect of which the relevant Deposit(s) has been made having been returned
to the Issuing Bank endorsed as discharged by the Beneficiary or the
Beneficiary having confirmed in writing to the satisfaction of the Issuing
Bank that the Issuing Bank no longer has any further liability under the
relevant Guarantees and the obligations and liabilities of the Chargor
under the Facility Letter in respect of that Guarantee having been
discharged in full to the satisfaction of the Issuing Bank. In these
circumstances, the Account Bank shall repay the relevant Deposit(s) made in
respect of the relevant Guarantee and interest on such
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Deposit(s) to the Chargor and the security constituted by this Deed shall
be released in respect of the amount of such Deposit(s) and interest
thereon so repaid.
3.3 Any repayment permitted by the Issuing Bank shall not be deemed to be a
release of this security over any other money or interest then or in the
future forming part of the Deposit(s) or accrued on such Deposit(s). It is
hereby expressly agreed that the terms of this Deed shall override the
terms applicable to the Deposit(s).
4. SUBORDINATION
Except for any debt or claim of the Issuing Bank against the Applicant
under sub-clause 5(a)(v) of the Facility Letter (in relation to the
initial guarantee issuance fee) or under clause 6 (Commitment Fee and
Guarantee Issuance Fee) or clause 19 (Expenses) of the Facility Letter, all
other debts and claims of the Issuing Bank and the Account Bank against the
Chargor or the Beneficiary under the Facility Letter (including under any
document the form of which appears as a schedule to the Facility Letter),
this Deed and/or under or in connection with any and all Guarantees issued
under the Facility Letter shall be postponed to the remaining Relevant
Liabilities owed to the Relevant Creditors and, accordingly:-
(a) except in the event of the liquidation of the Chargor (to which the
provisions of (c) below shall apply), the Issuing Bank and the Account
Bank shall not be permitted to recover or enforce or take any action
to recover or enforce any such debt or claim of the Issuing Bank or
the Account Bank against the Chargor, and the Chargor shall not make
and the Issuing Bank and the Account Bank shall not receive any
payment in respect of any such debt or claim against the Chargor,
unless and until all of the remaining Relevant Liabilities of the
Relevant Creditors have been fully paid or have otherwise been
discharged, satisfied, released or ceased to exist;
(b) the Issuing Bank and the Account Bank shall not, on the ground of any
such debt or claim against the Chargor (but without prejudice to any
other ground which the Issuing Bank and/or the Account Bank may have),
claim any set-off, abatement or other extinction or reduction in
respect of an amount payable by the Issuing Bank or the Account Bank
to the Chargor unless and until all of the remaining Relevant
Liabilities of the Relevant Creditors have been fully paid or have
otherwise been discharged, satisfied, released or ceased to exist;
(c) the Issuing Bank and the Account Bank shall give to the Relevant
Creditors in respect of such Relevant Liabilities, the benefit of any
proof which it is entitled to make in the liquidation of the Chargor
in respect of any such debt or claim against the Chargor and the full
benefit of the Security in respect of any such debt or claim, until
the remaining Relevant Liabilities of the Relevant Creditors have been
fully paid or have otherwise been discharged, satisfied, released or
ceased to exist;
(d) except in the event of the liquidation of the Beneficiary (to which
the provisions of (f) below shall apply), the Issuing Bank and the
Account Bank shall not be permitted to recover or enforce or take any
action to recover or enforce any such debt or claim of the Issuing
Bank or the Account Bank against the Beneficiary, and the Beneficiary
shall not make and the Issuing Bank and the Account Bank shall not
receive any payment in respect of any such debt or claim against the
Beneficiary, unless and until all of the remaining Relevant
Liabilities of the Relevant Creditors have been fully paid or have
otherwise been discharged, satisfied, released or ceased to exist;
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(e) the Issuing Bank and the Account Bank shall not, on the ground of any
such debt or claim against the Beneficiary (but without prejudice to
any other ground which the Issuing Bank and/or the Account Bank may
have), claim any set-off, abatement or other extinction or reduction
in respect of an amount payable by the Issuing Bank or the Account
Bank to the Beneficiary unless and until all of the remaining Relevant
Liabilities of the Relevant Creditors have been fully paid or have
otherwise been discharged, satisfied, released or ceased to exist;
(f) the Issuing Bank and the Account Bank shall give to the Relevant
Creditors in respect of such Relevant Liabilities, the benefit of any
proof which it is entitled to make in the liquidation of the
Beneficiary in respect of any such debt or claim against the
Beneficiary and the full benefit of the Security in respect of any
such debt or claim, until the remaining Relevant Liabilities of the
Relevant Creditors have been fully paid or have otherwise been
discharged, satisfied, released or ceased to exist.
Following all the Relevant Liabilities of the Relevant Creditors having
been fully paid or having otherwise been discharged, satisfied, released or
ceased to exist, the debts and claims of the Issuing Bank and the Account
Bank against the Applicant or the Beneficiary under the Facility Letter,
this Deed and/or under or in connection with any and all Guarantees issued
under the Facility Letter, shall rank at least equally with all the other
unsecured and unsubordinated obligations of the Applicant or the
Beneficiary (as the case may be) at the relevant time.
5. POWERS EXERCISABLE BY THE ISSUING BANK IN RELATION TO THE DEPOSIT(S)
5.1 Subject to clause 4, the Issuing Bank may, enforce this security without
further notice to the Chargor and without any further or other consent from
the Chargor upon or at any time after an amount which is due and payable by
the Chargor or the Beneficiary to the Issuing Bank under the Facility
Letter or the Guarantee has not been paid on the due date for payment, by
applying or transferring as the Issuing Bank thinks fit all or part of any
money subject to this security at any time or times (whether on or before
or after the expiry of any fixed or minimum period for which such money may
have been deposited) in or towards satisfaction of all or such part of the
Secured Sums the Issuing Bank may determine as are due and payable to the
Issuing Bank under the Facility Letter or any Guarantee issued thereunder
but which have not been paid on the due date for payment. Any debt or claim
of the Issuing Bank or the Account Bank against the Chargor or the
Beneficiary which is subject to the subordination provisions of clause 16
of the Facility Letter or clause 4 of the Guarantee shall not be regarded
as (or determined by the Issuing Bank to be) an amount which is due and
payable by the Chargor or the Beneficiary, as the case may be, unless and
until all the Relevant Liabilities of the Relevant Creditors have been
fully paid or have otherwise been discharged, satisfied, released or ceased
to exist.
5.2 The Issuing Bank is hereby irrevocably empowered and authorised as the
Chargor's attorney in its name and at its expense, and as its act or deed
or otherwise, to execute and deliver such documents and give such
instructions as may be required to give effect to this Deed including
(without limitation) instructions for the use of any money or interest
subject to this security to purchase any currency or currencies required to
effect the application of such money or interest upon and subject to the
terms and conditions of this Deed.
5.3 The Issuing Bank shall not be liable for any loss sustained by the Chargor
in consequence of the exercise of the Issuing Bank's rights under this Deed
(other than any loss caused by the wilful neglect and gross negligence of
the Issuing Bank), including (without limitation)
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any loss of interest caused by the determination before maturity of the
Deposit(s) or by the fluctuation in any exchange rate at which currency may
be bought or sold by the Issuing Bank.
6. NEGATIVE PLEDGE
The Chargor may not assign or create, or permit to subsist, any fixed or
floating charge or other security interest of any kind or any trust over
any money or interest subject to this security or its right or interest
therein, or agree to do so, except in favour of the Issuing Bank.
7. CONTINUING SECURITY
This security shall be a continuing security notwithstanding any
intermediate payments or settlement of accounts or other matters whatsoever
and shall be in addition to and shall not prejudice or be prejudiced by any
right of set-off, combination, lien, or other rights exercisable by the
Issuing Bank against the Chargor or by any security, guarantee, indemnity
and/or negotiable instrument now or in the future held by the Issuing Bank,
provided that any such rights and any such security, guarantee, indemnity
and/or negotiable instrument shall be subject to the provisions of clause 4
above.
8. COSTS, CHARGES AND EXPENSES
8.1 Subject, in each case, to clause 4, all costs, charges, losses and expenses
(including all professional fees and disbursements) and all other sums paid
or incurred reasonably and properly by the Issuing Bank or the Account Bank
under or in connection with this Deed or in respect of the Deposit(s) or
the Secured Sums:-
(a) shall be recoverable (on a full indemnity basis) from the Chargor as a
debt payable on demand;
(b) may be debited without notice to any account of the Chargor (other
than the account specified in Part 2 of Schedule 1);
(c) shall bear interest according to the provisions of clause 20 of the
Facility Letter from the date on which the relevant cost, charge,
loss, expense or such other sums paid or incurred by the Issuing Bank
or the Account Bank would, but for the provisions of clauses 4, 5.1
and/or 9.1 of this Deed, be due and payable hereunder; and
(d) shall be charged on the Deposit(s).
8.2 Without prejudice to the generality of clause 8.1 but subject to clause 4,
the costs recoverable by the Issuing Bank and/or the Account Bank under
this Deed shall include (i) all costs (whether or not allowable on a
taxation by the Court) of all proceedings for the enforcement of this Deed
or for the recovery or attempted recovery of the Secured Sums, (ii) all
money expended and all costs arising out of the exercise of any power,
right or discretion conferred by this Deed, (iii) all costs and losses
arising from any default by the Chargor in the payment when due of any of
the Secured Sums or the performance of its obligations under this Deed and
(iv) all reasonably and properly incurred administrative charges of the
Issuing Bank and/or the Account Bank based on time spent by its employees
and agents in connection with the affairs of the Chargor.
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9. SET-OFF
9.1 Subject to clause 4, and without prejudice to the Issuing Bank's and/or
Account Bank's foregoing rights and as a separate and independent
stipulation, the Chargor agrees that, without notice to it, the Issuing
Bank and/or Account Bank may at any time after an amount which is due and
payable by the Chargor or the Beneficiary to the Issuing Bank under the
Facility Letter or the Guarantee has not been paid on the due date for
payment, combine or consolidate any or all sums of the money now or
subsequently standing to the Chargor's credit upon current account, deposit
account or any other account or otherwise in whatever currency in any part
of the world (whether opened with the Account Bank or opened by the Issuing
Bank on the Chargor's behalf with some third party and whether opened in
the Chargor's name or in the Issuing Bank's name in respect of the
Chargor's liabilities to the Issuing Bank or otherwise) with all or such
part of the Secured Sums the Issuing Bank may determine as are due and
payable under the Facility Letter or any Guarantee issued thereunder but
which have not been paid on the due date for payment. Subject to clause 4,
the Issuing Bank may purchase with any such money any other currency
required to effect such combination. Any debt or claim of the Issuing Bank
or the Account Bank against the Chargor or the Beneficiary which is subject
to the subordination provisions of clause 16 of the Facility Letter or
clause 4 of the Guarantee shall not be regarded as (or determined by the
Issuing Bank to be) an amount which is due and payable by the Chargor or
the Beneficiary, as the case may be, unless and until all the Relevant
Liabilities of the Relevant Creditors have been fully paid or have
otherwise been discharged, satisfied, released or ceased to exist.
9.2 The Issuing Bank and the Account Bank shall not be entitled to combine or
consolidate all or any part of the Deposit(s) with or apply the same in
repayment of any sums which are or become owing or are due or become due
respectively to the Issuing Bank and the Account Bank by the Chargor other
than in the circumstances set out in clause 5.1
10. FORBEARANCE AND PARTIAL INVALIDITY
10.1 No delay or omission of the Issuing Bank and/or the Account Bank in
exercising any right, power or privilege under this Deed shall operate to
impair such right, power or privilege or be construed as a waiver of it. A
single or partial exercise of any right, power or privilege shall not in
any circumstances preclude any other or further exercise of it or the
exercise of any other right, power or privilege.
10.2 If at any time any provision of this Deed is or becomes illegal, invalid or
unenforceable in any respect, the legality, validity or enforceability of
the remaining provisions of this Deed shall not in any way be affected or
impaired.
11. SERVICE OF DEMANDS AND NOTICES
11.1 Any notice or other communication to be given under this Deed shall be in
writing and, in the case of any notice or communication to the Chargor or
the Beneficiary, shall be deemed to have been duly served:
(a) if delivered by hand, at the time of actual delivery;
(b) if transmitted by facsimile, at the time the facsimile transmission
report (or other appropriate evidence) confirming that the facsimile
transmission has been transmitted to the addressee is received by the
sender; and
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(c) if sent by post, at noon on the second Business Day (in the case of an
address in Hong Kong) or the fifth Business Day (in the case of an
address outside Hong Kong) following the day of posting and shall be
effective if it is misdelivered or returned undelivered.
In proving such service it shall be sufficient to prove that personal
delivery was made, or that the envelope containing the communication was
correctly addressed and posted, or that a facsimile transmission report (or
other appropriate evidence) was obtained that the facsimile had been
transmitted to the addressee.
11.2 For the purposes of this clause 11 the authorised address of each party
shall be the address set out below (including the details of the facsimile
number and person for whose attention a notice or communication is to be
addressed) or such other address (and details) as that party may notify to
the other in writing from time to time in accordance with the requirements
of this clause:
(a) The Chargor: PCCW-HKT Telephone Limited
Address: ▇▇/▇, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇'▇ ▇▇▇▇
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Facsimile No: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
Attention: Company Secretary
(b) The Issuing Bank: Standard Chartered Bank (HK) Ltd
[GRAPHIC TRANSLATION OMITTED]
Address: 13/F Standard Chartered Bank ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇-▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Facsimile No: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, Senior Relationship Manager
(c) The Account Bank: Standard Chartered Bank (HK) Ltd
[GRAPHIC TRANSLATION OMITTED]
Address: 13/F Standard Chartered Bank ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇-▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Facsimile No: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, Senior Relationship Manager
(d) The Beneficiary: PCCW Limited
Address: ▇▇/▇, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
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Facsimile No: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
Attention: Company Secretary
With a copy to: PCCW Limited
Address: ▇▇/▇, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
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Facsimile No: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
Attention: Group Treasurer
11.3 Any communication to the Issuing Bank or to the Account Bank shall be sent
to the Issuing Bank or the Account Bank at the respective authorised
addresses or facsimile numbers and marked for the attention of the
person(s) referred to above and shall be deemed to have been given only on
actual receipt by the Issuing Bank or the Account Bank, as the case may be.
12. ASSIGNMENT AND PARTICIPATION
The Issuing Bank may not assign or transfer all or any part of its rights
in relation to this Deed, the Deposit(s) and/or the Secured Sums to any
person or otherwise grant an interest in them to any person. The Issuing
Bank may at any time grant rights of sub-participation in all or any part
of its rights or benefits under the Facility Letter.
13. CONFLICT
In the event of any conflict between the terms of the Facility Letter and
the terms of this Deed, the terms of the Facility Letter shall prevail.
14. FURTHER ASSURANCE
The Chargor shall at its own cost and on demand by the Issuing Bank in
writing execute and deliver to the Issuing Bank all such instruments and
other documents and take all such action as the Issuing Bank may from time
to time reasonably request in order to give full effect to this Deed.
15. AMENDMENT
No amendment to this Deed is effective for any purpose unless it has been
expressly agreed to in writing by each party to this Deed.
16. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
16.1 This Deed shall be governed by, construed and take effect in accordance
with the laws of
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Hong Kong.
16.2 The Hong Kong courts shall have jurisdiction to settle any claim, dispute
or matter of difference which may arise out of or in connection with this
Deed (including without limitation claims for set off or counterclaim) or
the legal relationships established by this Deed, but without prejudice to
the Issuing Bank's right to commence proceedings against the Chargor in any
other jurisdiction.
THIS DEED has been executed as a deed by the Chargor and it shall take effect on
the day and year first above written.
SCHEDULE 1
Part 1
Definition of the Deposit(s)
In this Deed the expression "Deposit(s)" means all sums of money in Hong Kong
Dollars:-
(a) deposited or paid by the Chargor now or at any time hereafter to the credit
of the account(s) with the Account Bank specified in Part 2 of this
Schedule and/or (where the context permits) any additional and/or
substitute account(s) in the future opened with the Account Bank for the
deposit or holding of all or part of the money or interest subject to this
security (including in each case such account as redesignated and/or
renumbered from time to time); and
(b) representing the renewal or replacement of or for any sums deposited or
paid or held as set out in the foregoing paragraph; and
(c) all and any interest payable and/or paid on or in respect of (a) and/or (b)
above from time to time.
Part 2
Details of Charged Account(s)
Account Name: PCCW-HKT Telephone Limited Account No: ▇▇▇-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇
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SCHEDULE 2
Notice of Charge over Interest in Deposit Account
To: Standard Chartered Bank (HK) Ltd
[GRAPHIC TRANSLATION OMITTED]
(as Account Bank and Issuing Bank)
For the attention of: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, Senior Relationship Manager
Fax: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
13 July 2004
PCCW-HKT Telephone Limited - Deposit Account
We refer to the Deed of Charge over Deposit Account (the "Deposit Account
Charge") dated on or around the date of this notice and made between ourselves
as Chargor (1) Standard Chartered Bank (HK) Ltd [GRAPHIC TRANSLATION OMITTED] as
Account Bank (2) Standard Chartered Bank (HK) Ltd [GRAPHIC TRANSLATION OMITTED]
as Issuing Bank (3) and PCCW Limited as the beneficiary of certain guarantees to
be issued under the Facility Letter. Terms as used herein have the same meanings
as set out herein or as defined in the Deposit Account Charge.
We hereby give you notice that pursuant to the Deposit Account Charge we, as
beneficial owner, have charged by way of first fixed charge to the Issuing Bank
all our rights, title and interest in and to all sums which may at any time be
standing to the credit of the account listed in the table below, which was
opened by us in your books (the "Deposit Account").
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Company/account description Deposit
Account number
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Account name: PCCW-HKT Telephone Limited ▇▇▇-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇
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In connection therewith and by way of security for the Secured Sums (as defined
in the Deposit Account Charge) we hereby irrevocably and unconditionally
instruct and authorise you (notwithstanding any previous instructions whatsoever
which we may have given you to the contrary):
(a) to disclose to the Issuing Bank without any reference to or further
authority from us and without any enquiry by you as to the justification
for such disclosure, such information relating to the Deposit Account, the
amount from time to time standing to the credit thereof (the "Deposit
Account Funds") and the debts represented thereby as the Issuing Bank may,
at any time and from time to time, request you to disclose to it;
(b) at any time and from time to time upon receipt by you of instructions in
writing from the Issuing Bank to release or to pay to the Issuing Bank any
amount of the Deposit Account Funds and generally to act in accordance with
such instructions in relation to the Deposit Account and the Deposit
Account Funds, without any reference to or further authority from us and
without any enquiry by you as to the justification for such instructions or
the validity thereof;
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(c) to comply with the terms of any written notice, statement or instructions
in any way relating or purporting to relate to the Deposit Account, the
Deposit Account Funds or the debts represented thereby which you may
receive at any time and from time to time from the Issuing Bank without any
reference to or further authority from us and without any enquiry by you as
to the justification for such notice, statement or instructions or the
validity thereof;
(d) not to act upon our instructions with regard to the Deposit Account or the
Deposit Account Funds unless the Issuing Bank agrees in writing otherwise.
The instructions and authorisations which are contained in this letter shall
remain in full force and effect until we and the Issuing Bank together give you
notice in writing revoking them.
In consideration of your accepting the instructions and authorisations which are
contained in this letter we undertake not to take or bring any action, suit,
proceedings, claim or demand against you in relation to or arising out of your
acting on or complying with such instructions and authorisations.
This letter shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Hong Kong law.
Would you please acknowledge receipt of this letter and your acceptances of the
instructions and authorisations contained in it by sending a letter addressed to
us and to the Issuing Bank in the form attached hereto.
Yours faithfully
For and on behalf of
PCCW-HKT Telephone Limited
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Name:
Title:
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SCHEDULE 3
Acknowledgement of Notice of Charge over Interest in Deposit Account
[*ON THE HEADED NOTEPAPER OF THE ACCOUNT BANK*]
To: PCCW-HKT Telephone Limited (the "Company")
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Attn: Company Secretary
[*date*]
Dear Sirs
Re: Deposit Account No. ▇▇▇-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇
We hereby acknowledge receipt of a letter (a copy of which is attached hereto)
dated 13 July 2004 and addressed to us by the Company and hereby accept the
instructions and authorisations contained therein and undertake to act in
accordance and comply with the terms thereof. Terms as used herein have the same
meaning as set out in the attached letter or as defined in the Deposit Account
Charge (referred to in the attached letter).
We hereby acknowledge and confirm to the Issuing Bank that:
(a) without prejudice to our rights under the Deposit Account Charge (referred
to in the attached letter), as at this date no rights of counterclaim,
rights of set-off or any other equities whatsoever have arisen in our
favour against the Company in respect of the Deposit Account Funds or the
debts represented thereby or any part thereof and (except as provided in
the Deposit Account Charge) we will not make any claim or demands or
exercise any rights of counterclaim, rights of set-off or any other
equities whatsoever against the Company in respect of the Deposit Account
Funds or any part thereof; and
(b) we have not, as at the date hereof, received any notice that any third
party has or will have any right or interest whatsoever in or has made or
will be making any claim or demand or taking any action whatsoever against
the Deposit Account Funds or the debts represented thereby or any part
thereof.
We undertake that in the event of our becoming aware at any time that any person
or entity other than the Issuing Bank has or will have any right or interest
whatsoever thereby or any part thereof we will forthwith give written notice of
the terms thereof to the Issuing Bank.
We have made the acknowledgements and confirmations and have given the
undertakings set out in this letter in the knowledge that they are required by
the Issuing Bank in connection with the security which has been constituted by
the Company in favour of the Issuing Bank under the Deposit Account Charge.
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This letter shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Hong Kong law.
Yours faithfully
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For and on behalf of
Standard Chartered Bank (HK) Ltd
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(as Account Bank)
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CHARGOR
THE COMMON SEAL of
PCCW-HKT Telephone Limited
was hereunto affixed (pursuant to
a resolution of its Board of Directors
and its Articles of Association)
in the presence of:
ISSUING BANK
SIGNED for and on behalf of
Standard Chartered Bank (HK) Ltd
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by:
ACCOUNT BANK
SIGNED for and on behalf of
Standard Chartered Bank (HK) Ltd
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by:
BENEFICIARY
SIGNED for and on behalf of
PCCW Limited
by:
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