Second Schedule, Banking Act 1970

Section 14C EFFECT OF MERGER Interpretation 1. In this Schedule, unless the subject or context otherwise requires — “Bank” means the bank into which the other banks that are parties to a merger agreement are merged and to which a certificate of approval is issued under section 14A(1); “customer” means any person having a banking account or any other account or other dealing, transaction or arrangement with any existing bank or the Bank, as the case may be; “effective date” means the date of lodgment mentioned in section 14A(4); “existing banks” means the banks that are parties to a merger agreement other than the Bank, and “existing bank” is to be construed accordingly; “liabilities” includes duties and obligations of every description (whether present or future, actual or contingent); “property” means property and assets and rights of every description (whether present or future, actual or contingent) wheresoever situate and includes property held on trust and securities, rights, benefits and powers of every description but does not include any document required to be kept by an existing bank under the Companies Act 1967; “security” means a mortgage or charge (whether legal or equitable), debenture, bill of exchange, promissory note, guarantee, lien, pledge, hypothecation, assignment by way of security, indemnity, right of set‑off, undertaking or other means of securing the payment of a debt, whether present or future, or the discharge of an obligation or liability, whether actual or contingent; “undertaking of an existing bank” means the business and all of the property vested in or belonging to or held by that existing bank immediately before the effective date and all of the liabilities to which that existing bank was subject immediately before that date. Banking Act 19702020 Ed. 218 Transfer of undertakings 2.—(1) On the effective date, the undertakings of the existing banks are, by virtue of section 14C and this Schedule and without further assurance, transferred to and vest in the Bank as if in all respects the Bank were the same person in law as the existing banks. (2) The production of a copy of the certificate of approval issued under section 14A(1) is, on and after the effective date, conclusive evidence in all courts and proceedings of the transfer of the undertakings of the existing banks to the Bank and of their vesting in the Bank. (3) If any portion of the undertaking of an existing bank cannot be vested in the Bank by virtue of section 14C and this Schedule because transfers of that portion are governed otherwise than by the law of Singapore, then that existing bank must, as soon as is practicable after the effective date, take all necessary steps for the purpose of securing that that portion is effectively transferred to the Bank. Saving of contracts, etc. 3.—(1) Subject to this paragraph, all contracts, agreements, conveyances, covenants, settlements, trusts, deeds, leases, licences and other instruments or undertakings entered into by or made with or addressed to an existing bank or to which an existing bank is a party (whether alone or with any other person) before and in force on the effective date are as from that date binding and of full force and effect in every respect against or in favour of the Bank as fully and effectually as if, instead of an existing bank, the Bank had been a party thereto or bound thereby or entitled to the benefit thereof. (2) In relation to every contract of employment to which sub‑paragraph (1) applies, that sub‑paragraph operates to substitute the Bank for the existing bank which was the employer thereunder immediately before the effective date. Banking business 4. Without limiting paragraphs 2 and 3, the following provisions have effect in relation to the banking businesses of the existing banks: (a) any account between an existing bank and a customer at any office or branch of that existing bank is transferred to the Bank on the effective date and becomes as and from that date an account between the Bank and the customer with the same rights and subject to the same obligations and incidents (including rights of set‑off) as would have been applicable thereto if the account between that existing bank and the customer had continued and so that any instruction, order, direction, mandate or authority given by the customer in relation to Banking Act 1970219 2020 Ed. the account and subsisting at or given after the effective date, unless and until revoked or cancelled, applies and has effect in relation to the account after its transfer to the Bank, except that nothing in this sub‑paragraph affects any right of the Bank or of the customer to vary the conditions or incidents subject to which any account is kept; (b) any security held by an existing bank as security for the payment of debts or liabilities (whether present or future, actual or contingent) of any person is transferred or deemed to be transferred to the Bank on the effective date and is to be held by and be available to the Bank as security for the payment of such debts and liabilities to the Bank; and where the moneys secured by such a security include future advances to or liabilities of that person, the security as from that date is to be held by and be available to the Bank as security for future advances to that person by, and future liabilities of that person to, the Bank to the same extent to which future advances by, or liabilities to, the existing bank were secured thereby immediately before that date; (c) the Bank is, in relation to any security transferred or deemed to have been transferred to it in accordance with or by virtue of the provisions of this Schedule and the moneys thereby secured in accordance with those provisions, entitled to the same rights and priorities and subject to the same obligations and incidents as the existing bank from which the same has been transferred or deemed to have been transferred would have been entitled and subject to if the same had continued to be held by the existing bank; (d) the custody of any document, goods or other property held by an existing bank as bailee for any other person at any office or branch of that existing bank is transferred or deemed to be transferred to the Bank on the effective date and the rights and obligations of that existing bank under any contract of bailment relating to such document, goods or property is transferred or deemed to be transferred on that date to the Bank. Actions, etc., not to abate 5. Any action, arbitration or proceeding and any cause of action, arbitration or proceeding which is, on the effective date, pending or existing by, against or in favour of an existing bank must not abate or be discontinued or be in any way prejudicially affected by reason of the provisions of this Schedule, but the same may be prosecuted, continued and enforced by, against or in favour of the Bank as and when it might have been prosecuted, continued and enforced by, against or in favour of an existing bank if this Schedule had not been enacted. Banking Act 19702020 Ed. 220 Documents, etc., to remain evidence 6. All documents, records and admissions which if this Schedule had not been enacted would have been evidence in respect of any matter for or against an existing bank must, on and after the effective date, be admitted in evidence in respect of the same or the like matter for or against the Bank. Application of Part 4 of Evidence Act 1893 7.—(1) Despite the transfer of the undertakings of the existing banks to the Bank under and in the terms of this Schedule, the provisions of Part 4 of the Evidence Act 1893 continue to apply with respect to the books of the existing banks which are transferred to the Bank by virtue of this Schedule and to entries made in such books before the effective date. (2) In this paragraph, “books” includes ledgers, day books, cash books, account books and all other books and records used in the ordinary business of an existing bank before the effective. Application of documents 8.—(1) Subject to sub‑paragraph (2), where any document whensoever made or executed contains any reference express or implied to an existing bank, such reference is, on and after the effective date and except where the context otherwise requires, to be read and construed and to have effect as a reference to the Bank. (2) Without limiting sub‑paragraph (1), where by any order of the court or by any trust deed, settlement, covenant or agreement or where by any will, codicil or other testamentary writing, whether made or executed before or after the effective date, an existing bank (whether alone or with any other person) was or is granted letters of administration or appointed trustee, executor, guardian or in any other fiduciary capacity, such order, trust deed, settlement, covenant, agreement, will, codicil or other testamentary writing does not fail by reason of anything in this Schedule but is, as from the effective date, to be read and construed and to have effect as if for any reference therein to that existing bank there was substituted a reference to the Bank. Dissolution of existing banks 9.—(1) An existing bank is, by virtue of this Schedule, dissolved on the day (being a day after the effective date) on which at the request of the Bank, the Registrar of Companies strikes the name of that existing bank off the register under section 344 of the Companies Act 1967. Banking Act 1970221 2020 Ed. (2) On the day mentioned in sub‑paragraph (1), all documents required to be kept by the existing bank pursuant to the provisions of the Companies Act 1967, by virtue of this Schedule, are transferred to and vest in the Bank.