Proportionate
DEED OF GUARANTEE AND INDEMNITY
To: OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED (hereinafter called "the Bank")
In consideration of the Bank making or continuing to make loans or advances or otherwise giving or extending or continuing to give or extend credit or granting other credit or banking facilities or other accommodation from time to time to such extent and for so long as the Bank may think fit to ______________________________________________________ _______ _____________________
of_________________________________________________________________________________________ (hereinafter called the "Customer") whether through the Bank's branches or offices in Singapore or elsewhere the parties listed in Schedule I hereto (hereinafter collectively called the "Guarantor") hereby jointly and severally (but subject always to Clause 2 of this Guarantee) unconditionally agree/s with the Bank as follows that is to say:-
1. The Guarantor will pay to the Bank on demand all sums of monies or liabilities which are now or shall hereafter from time to time be due or owing or shall remain unpaid to the Bank or be incurred from or by the Customer anywhere whether as principal or as surety and whether solely or jointly with any other person or persons (in partnership or otherwise) on any account or accounts or otherwise including the ultimate balance which at the date of such demand shall be due or owing or remain unpaid to the Bank by the Customer upon any such account or accounts or otherwise whether in respect of bills of exchange promissory notes or other instruments (whether or not negotiable) made drawn accepted or indorsed by or on behalf of the Customer either solely or jointly with any other person or persons (in partnership or otherwise) and discounted or paid by the Bank or in respect of letters of credit trust receipts guarantees indemnities or other instruments issued by the Bank for or on the account of the Customer whether solely or jointly with any other person or persons (in partnership or otherwise) or in respect of obligations and liabilities arising from foreign exchange, swaps and derivatives transactions pursuant to or under an ISDA Master Agreement or otherwise between the Customer and the Bank (as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time by any amendment agreement, document or confirmation with respect to transactions thereunder) or in respect of any monies for which the Customer may be liable to the Bank as surety whether solely or jointly with any person or persons (in partnership or otherwise) or in any other way whatsoever whether such liabilities to the Bank thereon at the date of such demand be certain or contingent and not as yet due and payable TOGETHER WITH in all the cases aforesaid interest at such rate or rates as may from time to time be fixed or determined by the Bank commission discount and other banking charges and together with all legal and other costs (including legal costs on an indemnity basis) charges and expenses which the Bank may incur in enforcing or seeking to enforce any security for or obtaining or seeking to obtain payment of all or any part of the monies and liabilities hereby guaranteed on a full indemnity basis. All amounts payable by the Guarantor hereunder (whether on account of principal interest or otherwise) shall be paid in full free of set-off or counterclaim ("Guaranteed Money”, which expression shall include any part thereof).
2. (1) This guarantee shall be a continuing guarantee for the purpose of securing the whole of the monies and liabilities or ultimate balance in paragraph 1 hereof mentioned notwithstanding any such payments receipts or dividends as are hereinafter mentioned provided always that the liability of each of the Guarantor individually shall not exceed the respective proportions set out in Schedule II hereto and the share due from each of the Guarantor in respect thereof shall be in accordance with the aforesaid proportions and not otherwise.
(2) In addition to the said limit hereinbefore mentioned the Guarantor shall be liable to pay interest on the sum claimable from the Guarantor on daily balance at such rate or rates as may from time to time be fixed or determined by the Bank from the date of demand to the date of payment as well after as before any judgment is obtained in respect thereof and all costs (including legal costs on an indemnity basis) charges and expenses incurred by the Bank in relation to the enforcement of this guarantee or otherwise on a full indemnity basis together with an amount equal to any goods and services tax payable by the Bank in respect of such charges and expenses.
(3) In the absence of express written agreement to the contrary the above limit is to be added to and to be cumulative with the limit or limits specified in any other guarantee or guarantees in respect of the Customer's liabilities to the Bank which the Bank may now or subsequently hold from the Guarantor so that the Guarantor shall be answerable up to an amount equivalent to the aggregate of such limits as if the Guarantor had given one guarantee up to the limit of such aggregate.
3. This guarantee shall be held by the Bank as a continuing security notwithstanding any intermediate payment or settlement of account or accounts or satisfaction of the whole or any part of any sum or sums of money due or owing as aforesaid or otherwise and notwithstanding the closing of any of the Customer's accounts with the Bank which is subsequently reopened or the subsequent opening of any account by the Customer whether solely or jointly with any other person or persons (in partnership or otherwise) and shall extend to cover all or any sum or sums of money which shall for the time being constitute the balance due or owing from the Customer on any account or accounts or otherwise as hereinbefore mentioned in paragraph 1.
4. (1) All monies received from or on account of the Customer or from any other person or estate or from the realisation of any security or otherwise for the purpose of being applied in reduction of the monies or the ultimate balance in paragraph 1 above mentioned shall be treated for all purposes as payments in gross and not as appropriated or attributable to any specific part or item of the said monies even if appropriated thereto by the person otherwise entitled so to appropriate.
(2) In the event of this guarantee ceasing from any cause whatsoever to be binding as a continuing security on the Guarantor the Bank shall be at liberty without thereby affecting the Bank's rights hereunder to open a fresh account or accounts and/or continue with any then existing account with the Customer and no money paid from time to time into any such account or accounts by or on behalf of the Customer and subsequently drawn out by the Customer shall on settlement of any claim in respect of this guarantee be appropriated towards or have the effect of payment of any part of the money due from the Customer at the time of this guarantee ceasing to be so binding as a continuing security or of the interest thereon unless the person or persons paying in the money shall at the time in writing direct the Bank specially to appropriate it to that purpose provided that such appropriation shall be done at the Bank's absolute discretion.
5. All guarantees indemnities or other securities now or at any time hereafter held by the Bank for or in respect of all or any of the monies and liabilities mentioned in paragraph 1 hereof shall be treated as securities for the ultimate balance for the time being due or owing to the Bank by the Customer as aforesaid. Unless and until the Bank shall have been paid in full all monies and liabilities due or owing to the Bank by the Customer as aforesaid the Guarantor shall not claim or participate in the benefit of any such securities or any part thereof or any interest therein and the Bank shall be entitled to realise and apply such securities as the Bank in its absolute discretion sees fit for its own use and benefit.
6. No disposition assurance security or payment which may be avoided under any law relating to bankruptcy or under any provisions of the Companies Act (Cap. 50) or any statutory modification thereof or under any other applicable laws or is otherwise avoided in any manner and no release settlement or discharge which may have been given or made on the faith of any such disposition assurance security or payment shall prejudice or affect the Bank's right to recover from the Guarantor monies to the full extent of this guarantee as if such disposition
assurance security payment release settlement or discharge had never been granted given or made.
7. (1) Any indebtedness of the Customer whether as principal or as surety and whether solely or jointly with any other person or persons (in partnership or otherwise) now or hereafter held by the Guarantor shall be subordinated to the indebtedness or liabilities of the Customer to the Bank as aforesaid and such indebtedness of the Customer to the Guarantor if the Bank so requires shall be collected enforced and received by the Guarantor as trustees for the Bank and shall be paid over to the Bank on account of the indebtedness or liabilities of the Customer to the Bank but without reducing or affecting in any manner the Guarantor's liability under this guarantee until all monies and liabilities hereby guaranteed have been fully paid to the Bank. Any security now or hereafter held by or for the Guarantor from the Customer in respect of the Guarantor's liability hereunder shall be held in trust for the Bank and as security for the Guarantor's liability hereunder.
(2) Where the Guarantor is a corporation, nothing in this paragraph shall be effective to create a charge or other security interest.
8. This guarantee shall be in addition to and shall not in any way be prejudiced or affected by any other security whether negotiable or otherwise including any other guarantee or indemnity which the Bank may now or at any time hereafter hold from the Guarantor or the Customer or any other person for all or any part of the monies hereby guaranteed nor shall such security or any other security to which the Bank may be otherwise entitled or the liability of any person not a party hereto for all or any part of the monies hereby guaranteed be in any way prejudiced or affected by this guarantee.
9. (1) This guarantee and the Guarantor's obligations hereunder shall not be prejudiced diminished or affected or discharged or impaired nor shall the Guarantor be released or exonerated by any of the matters following:-
(a) any increase decrease extension renewal or re-structure in any manner whatsoever of all or any of the loans or advances or credit or banking or credit facilities or other accommodation granted or given to the Customer from time to time whether solely or jointly with any other person or persons (in partnership or otherwise) and whether beyond the said limit or otherwise or any variation of any terms and conditions thereof with or without notice to the Guarantor;
(b) the Bank's refusal at any time or times with or without notice to the Guarantor or to the Customer to grant any further loans or advances or credit or banking or credit facilities or other accommodation to the Customer notwithstanding that the limit of this guarantee shall not have been reached and the Bank may at any time in its absolute discretion refuse such further credit or accommodation;
(c) any moratorium or other period staying or suspending by any laws or statutes or rules or regulations or proclamations or edicts or decrees or orders in Singapore or any other country or countries or the order of any court or other authority in or of Singapore or elsewhere all or any of the Bank's rights, remedies or recourse against the Customer or any other person;
(d) any variation exchange renewal release or modification of any guarantee indemnity or security or the refusal or neglect by the Bank to complete enforce or assign any judgment specialty or other security or instrument negotiable or otherwise and whether satisfied by payment or not all of which the Bank is at
liberty to do whether with or without the Guarantor's consent or notice to the Guarantor;
(e) any time forbearance abandonment release or discharge (wholly or partially) concession or other indulgence given or extended to the Customer and/or to any party to any guarantee indemnity security or other instrument in respect of any monies hereby guaranteed all of which the Bank is at liberty to give whether with or without the Guarantor's consent or notice to the Guarantor;
(f) any compromise composition or arrangement made with the Customer and/or other person or persons all of which the Bank is at liberty to make whether with or without the Guarantor's consent or notice to the Guarantor;
(g) any present or future bill note guarantee indemnity mortgage charge pledge lien or other security or right or remedy held by or available to the Bank being or becoming wholly or in part void voidable or unenforceable on any ground whatsoever or by the Bank dealing with exchanging varying realising releasing or failing to perfect or enforce any of the same at any time or from time to time;
(h) the Bank compounding with discharging releasing or varying the liability of or granting any time indulgence or concession to the Customer or any other guarantor or any other person or renewing determining varying or increasing any bill promissory note or other negotiable instrument accommodation facility or transaction in any manner whatsoever or concurring in accepting or varying any compromise arrangement or settlement or the Bank's omission, delay, failure, negligence to claim or enforce payment from the Customer or any other person;
(i) any legal limitation on or insufficiency in the borrowing powers or disability or incapacity of or other fact or circumstance relating to the Customer or any other person;