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primarily engaged in the business of the Registered Bank;

(f) every Registered Bank shall provide a copy of its most recent Supplemental Disclosure Statement, or such part of it as is requested, at no charge, immediately to any person requesting a copy where the request is made at the Registered Bank’s head office and within five Working Days where the request is made at any branch of the Registered Bank, any other Premises of the Registered Bank, or any Premises of an agency of the Registered Bank primarily engaged in the business of the Registered Bank, unless the content of a Supplemental Disclosure Statement is included in the General Disclosure Statement; and

(g) every Registered Bank shall deliver a copy of its most recent Disclosure Statement to the Reserve Bank on the Publication Date.

4. General Provisions Relating to Content of Disclosure Statement—(1) (a) In addition to the information which is required by this Order, a Disclosure Statement:

(i) shall contain such other information as in the opinion of the Directors it is necessary or desirable to include so as to ensure that any information contained in the Disclosure Statement is not false or misleading in any Material particular; and

(ii) subject to any express provision to the contrary in this Order, may contain such other information as the Directors consider appropriate.

(b) A Disclosure Statement shall not contain any offer (within the meaning of that term as defined in section 2 of the Securities Act 1978) of any Debt Securities, but may contain information required for the purposes of regulation 21(2) and regulation 22(d) of the Securities Regulations 1983.

(2) Subject to the Act and this clause, nothing in this Order shall limit the provisions of any other enactment.

(3) Where this Order requires or permits a Disclosure Statement to incorporate information about any person, business, or group in respect of a stated period, that information need not relate to any part of that period for which the person, business, group or any part thereof did not exist. Where the Disclosure Statement contains information in respect of a period that is less than the stated period, it shall identify the period in respect of which the information is provided.

(4) The Disclosure Statement shall not state or imply that a person is, or intends to become, a shareholder of the Overseas Bank, or a member of the Overseas Banking Group, without also stating whether that person guarantees any of the obligations of the Registered Bank or any member of the Banking Group.

(5) Subject to subclause (7) of this clause, where a Registered Bank is unable because of systems limitations or because of circumstances beyond its control to disclose information which the Registered Bank would, pursuant to this Order, be required to disclose, the Disclosure Statement shall:

(a) state that fact, and an explanation of the circumstances; and

(b) contain information which is the closest available alternative to that required to be disclosed pursuant to this Order.

(6) The comparative information required to be disclosed by this Order for the previous corresponding period shall be restated so that it corresponds to the information presented for the current period. Where there has been a Material restatement of prior period amounts, of the nature of, and the reason for, the restatement shall be disclosed.

(7) A Registered Bank need not disclose comparative information where this information is not readily available, provided that comparative information shall be deemed to be readily available 12 months after the date at which such information was first required to be Published.

(8) A Registered Bank shall disclose the currency used where financial statements, or information drawn from financial statements, are disclosed in a currency other than New Zealand dollars.

(9) Other than in the case of copies of guarantee contracts, all information disclosed in accordance with this Order shall be disclosed in English.

Part II

Key Information Summary

5. Content of Key Information Summary—(1) Subject to subclause (2) of this clause, the Key Information Summary shall contain, in the same order and under the same headings, the information required to be disclosed pursuant to subclause (6) of this clause, as at the Registered Bank’s Balance Date or for the Accounting Period or Interim Accounting Period, as the case may be, unless otherwise stated.

(2) If a Key Information Summary would be false or misleading as a result of stating the information required to be disclosed pursuant to subclause (6) of this clause, information and explanations that will make the Key Information Summary not false or misleading shall also be stated under the relevant heading.

(3) Where applicable, the information contained in the Key Information Summary shall be taken from the information contained in the General Disclosure Statement.

(4) The Key Information Summary may contain additional information, to which the information stated pursuant to subclause (6) of this clause may refer by way of note, provided that such information is set out after the information required to be disclosed pursuant to subclause (6) of this clause.

(5) The information required to be disclosed pursuant to subclause (6)(d) to (h) of this clause shall include comparative figures for the previous corresponding period.

(6) The Key Information Summary shall contain:

(a) Introductory information—

the following statement:

"The purpose of this Key Information Summary is to provide customers and potential customers with information about the financial condition of their bank.

Neither the New Zealand Government nor the Reserve Bank of New Zealand guarantees or insures bank deposits.

The information contained in the Key Information Summary is explained in the Reserve Bank publication ... ‘Your Bank’s ... Disclosure Statement—What’s In It For You?’ ... which can be obtained from the Reserve Bank ...’ or, at the option of the Registered Bank, ... ‘from the Reserve Bank and the (name of bank)’’.

(b) Corporate information—

(i) the name of the Overseas Bank and its country of domicile;

(ii) if applicable, the name of any person that is the Ultimate Parent Bank of the Overseas Bank and its country of domicile;

(iii) if applicable, the name of any person that is the Ultimate Holding Company of the Overseas Bank and its country of domicile;

(c) Credit rating—