1.1
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Definitions
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(a)
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"Acquisition" means an
acquisition by the Grantor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Rights and related
Tangibles and Miscellaneous Interests, or any interest in all or a portion
thereof;
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(b)
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"Acquisition Costs"
means the costs and expenses incurred by the Grantor in making an
Acquisition including, without limitation, the purchase price paid, fees
and commissions, registration and due diligence costs and consultant fees
and expenses (including legal, land and engineering costs) and including
costs and expenses associated with unsuccessful
Acquisitions;
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(c)
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"Affiliate" means, with
respect to the relationship between corporations, that one of them is
controlled by the other or that both of them are controlled by the same
Person and for this purpose a corporation shall be deemed to be controlled
by the Person who owns or effectively controls, other than by way of
security only, sufficient voting shares of the corporation (whether
directly through the ownership of shares of the corporation or indirectly
through the ownership of shares of another corporation or otherwise) to
elect the majority of its board of
directors;
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(d)
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"Annual Net Cash Flow"
means the aggregate of the NPI Payments made in a given calendar
year;
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(e)
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"ARTC" means credits or
rebates in respect of Crown Royalties which are paid or credited by the
Crown, including those paid or credited under the Alberta Corporate Tax
Act which are commonly known as "Alberta Royalty Tax
Credits";
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(f)
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"Asset Value" means, in
respect of any Property Interest, the present worth of all of the
estimated pre-tax net cash flow from the Proved Reserves and 50% of the
estimated pre-tax net cash flow from the Probable Reserves, associated
with such Property Interest determined in the most recent engineering
report dealing with such Property Interest, discounted at 15% per annum
and using escalating price and cost
assumptions;
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(g)
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"Business Day" means a
day other than a Saturday, Sunday or statutory holiday in
Alberta;
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(h)
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"Canadian Resource Property",
"Canadian Exploration Expense" and "Canadian Development Expense"
each have the meaning ascribed thereto in the Income Tax Act
(Canada);
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(i)
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"Capital Expenditures"
means drilling costs, completion costs, equipping costs and other costs
which would be classified as "capital costs" in accordance with GAAP, but
does not include Acquisition Costs;
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(j)
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"Capital Fund" means the
cash flow retained by the NPI Holder from cash otherwise available for
distribution which shall be advanced to the Grantor pursuant to loan
agreements between the NPI Holder and the Grantor from time to time to
finance future acquisitions and development of the Properties (as defined
in the Trust Indenture);
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(k)
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"Commodity Price and Currency
Swaps" means swap, hedging and other arrangements made by the
Grantor (including any assumed by the Grantor by contract, operation of
law or otherwise), from time to time, in respect of commodity prices or
rates of exchange of currencies the purpose of which is to mitigate or
eliminate exposure to fluctuations in prices of commodities or rates of
exchange of one currency for another which affect Production Costs or
revenues attributable to the Property Interests and includes guarantees,
either direct or indirect, by the Grantor of any swap, hedging and other
arrangements made by Persons wholly-owned, directly or indirectly, by the
Grantor or the NPI Holder provided such Person has guaranteed, directly or
indirectly, the Grantor's Commodity Price and Currency
Swaps;
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(l)
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"Credit Facilities"
means the credit facilities made available to the Grantor by the NPI
Holder from time to time including any notes and other evidences of
indebtedness relating to borrowings by the Grantor from the NPI Holder,
including, without limitation, any in connection with the Capital Fund,
and any other credit facilities made available to the Grantor (including
any assumed by the Grantor by contract, operation of law or otherwise)
from time to time by other Persons (including banks, other financial
institutions and Persons wholly-owned, directly or indirectly, by the
Grantor or the NPI Holder and including the Grantor's indebtedness under
its 9 5/8% U.S. Dollar Senior Subordinated Notes due 2010 issued under an
Indenture dated as of July 9, 2003 and the 10 ½% U.S. Dollar Senior
Subordinated Notes due 2011 issued under an Indenture dated as of February
12, 2001 for the Grantor's general partnership purposes including, without
limitation, to fund the payment of or to refinance the payment of amounts
paid or to be paid by the Grantor on account of Production Costs and
includes guarantees, either direct or indirect, by the Grantor of any
credit facilities made available to Persons wholly-owned, directly or
indirectly, by the Grantor or the NPI Holder provided such Person has
either made a credit facility available to the Grantor or guaranteed,
directly or indirectly, the Grantor's Credit
Facilities;
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(m)
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"Crown" means Her
Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada or a Province
thereof;
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(n)
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"Crown Royalties" means
any amount paid or payable to or received or receivable by the Crown by
virtue of an obligation imposed by statute or a contractual obligation
substituted for an obligation imposed by statute as a royalty, tax (other
than a municipal or school tax), lease rental or bonus or an amount in
lieu thereof that may reasonably be regarded as being in relation to the
acquisition, development or ownership of Petroleum and Natural Gas Rights
or the production of Petroleum
Substances;
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(o)
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"Debt Service Charges"
means, without duplication, the aggregate
of:
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(i)
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all
interest, penalties, fees, indemnities, legal costs, and other costs,
expenses and disbursements which the Grantor pays, or is collected,
pursuant to the Credit Facilities;
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(ii)
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all
amounts paid on account of principal pursuant to the Credit Facilities
including, without limitation, scheduled, prepaid (voluntary or mandatory)
and accelerated principal and amounts required to be paid on account of
banker's acceptances and letters of credit but not including any amounts
paid as Deferred Purchase Price Obligations;
and
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(iii)
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the
net loss from Interest Rate Swaps (a net profit being deducted from the
foregoing amounts),
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(p)
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"Deductible Production
Costs" means, for any period, 99% of the amount, if any, by which
all Production Costs for such period exceeds the aggregate, without
duplication, for such period of (A) withdrawals from the Reserve or
Reclamation Fund to fund payment of Production Costs, (B) advances
made pursuant to the Credit Facilities to fund the payment of Production
Costs, (C) any amounts paid by the NPI Holder by or on behalf of the
NPI Holder as part of the Deferred Purchase Price Obligation pursuant to
subclause 2.2(a), and (D) Residual
Revenues;
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(q)
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"Deferred Purchase Price
Obligation" shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in
subclause 2.2(a);
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(r)
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"Excess Residual
Revenues" means in respect of a period the amount, if any, by which
the Residual Revenues exceed the portion thereof that would have been
deducted in the calculation of Deductible Production Costs if as a result
Deductible Production Costs would be
nil;
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(s)
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"Facilities" means gas
processing plants, gas compression facilities, gas gathering facilities,
crude oil batteries, crude oil pipelines, power generation facilities and
similar facilities in which Petroleum Substances are compressed,
processed, gathered, transported, treated, measured or stored and which
are located near the oil or gas wells from which such Petroleum Substances
are produced;
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(t)
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"Future Acquisition"
means an Acquisition made after the date
hereof;
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(u)
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"Future Acquisition
Costs" means Acquisition Costs of Future Property
Interests;
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(v)
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"Future Property
Interests" means Property Interests acquired by the Grantor after
the date hereof and includes Property Interests acquired by any direct or
indirect subsidiary of the Grantor;
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(w)
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"General and Administrative
Costs" means the aggregate amount in representing all expenditures
and costs incurred in the management and administration of the Grantor or
the NPI Holder reasonably allocable by the Grantor to the Property
Interests including, (a) all reasonable costs and expenses relating to the
Grantor and the NPI Holder and paid to third parties by or on behalf of
the Grantor or their affiliates and (b) all reasonable costs and expenses
incurred specifically for the Grantor relating to the Grantor or the NPI
Holder including, auditing, accounting, bookkeeping, rent and other
leasehold expenses, legal, land administration, engineering, consulting,
travel, telephone, data processing, reporting, executive and management
time, salaries, bonuses (including under all executive bonus plans of the
Grantor, if any);
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(x)
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"GAAP" means, as at any
time, generally accepted accounting principles in Canada as at such time
as determined by the Canadian Institute of Chartered
Accountants;
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(y)
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"Grantor's Share" means
the share attributable to the Property
Interests;
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(z)
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"Interest Rate Swaps"
means interest rate swap, hedging and other arrangements made by the
Grantor (including any assumed by the Grantor by contract, operation of
law or otherwise), from time to time, the purpose of which is to mitigate
or eliminate exposure to fluctuations in interest rates applicable to the
Credit Facilities or other interest rates which affect Production Costs
and includes guarantees, either direct or indirect, by the Grantor of any
interest rate swap, hedging and other arrangements made by Persons
wholly-owned, directly or indirectly, by the Grantor or the NPI Holder
provided such Person has also guaranteed, directly or indirectly, the
Grantor's Interest Rate Swaps;
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(aa)
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"Leases" means the Crown
and freehold petroleum and natural gas leases, licenses, permits and
similar instruments pursuant to which the Grantor derives its interests in
the Petroleum and Natural Gas Rights included in the Property
Interests;
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(bb)
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"Lender" means, (a) the
lender or lenders (if there is more than one) that make the Credit
Facilities available to the Grantor and (b) the Person or Persons (if
there is more than one) with whom the Grantor makes Swap
Arrangements;
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(cc)
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"Miscellaneous
Interests" means all properties, assets and rights which are
related to Petroleum and Natural Gas Rights or Tangibles (other than
Petroleum and Natural Gas Rights and Tangibles),
including:
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(i)
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Title
and Operating Documents;
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(ii)
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Surface
Rights;
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(iii)
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books
and records;
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(iv)
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well
files, production records and similar data and
information;
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(v)
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injection
wells;
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(vi)
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geological,
seismic and similar data; and
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(vii)
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permits,
licences and authorizations required to own or operate wells and
Tangibles;
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(dd)
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"Month" means a period
commencing at 8:00 a.m. Calgary time on the first day of a calendar month
and ending immediately prior to 8:00 a.m. Calgary time on the first day of
the following calendar month;
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(ee)
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"Non-Deductible Crown
Royalties" means Crown Royalties which are either: (i)
required to be included in taxable income pursuant to
Section 12(1)(o) of the Income Tax Act (Canada)
or any replacement thereof or substitution therefor; or (ii) not permitted
to be deducted in computing taxable income pursuant to
Section 18(1)(m) of the Income Tax Act (Canada)
or any replacement thereof or substitution
therefor;
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(ff)
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"NPI" means the right to
receive the payment set forth in clause 2.3 on the terms and conditions
set forth herein;
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(gg)
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"NPI Lands" means the
lands which relate to the Petroleum and Natural Gas Rights included in the
Property Interests;
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(hh)
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"NPI Payment" means, in
respect of a Month, the payment for such Month to which the NPI Holder is
entitled pursuant to clause 2.3;
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(ii)
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"NPI Revenues" means,
for any period, 99% of:
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(i)
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the
Production Revenues for such period;
and
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(ii)
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the
Excess Residual Revenues for such
period;
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(jj)
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"Party" means the NPI
Holder or the Grantor;
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(kk)
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"Permitted Investments"
means: (i) obligations issued or guaranteed by the government
of Canada or any province of Canada or any agency or instrumentality
thereof; (ii) term deposits, guaranteed investment certificates,
certificates of deposit or bankers' acceptances of or guaranteed by any
Canadian chartered bank or other financial institution the short-term debt
or deposits of which have been rated at least A or the equivalent by
Standard & Poor's Corporation, Moody's Investors Service, Inc.,
Canadian Bond Rating Service Inc. or Dominion Bond Rating Service Limited;
(iii) commercial paper rated at least A or the equivalent by Canadian Bond
Rating Service Inc. or Dominion Bond Rating Service Limited, in each case
maturing within 180 days after the date of acquisition; and (iv) money
market instruments or funds which the Grantor determines, acting
reasonably and prudently, constitute secure
investments;
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(ll)
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"Person" includes an
individual, a body corporate, a trust, a union, a pension fund, a
government and a governmental
agency;
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(mm)
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"Petroleum and Natural Gas
Rights" means rights to explore for, drill for, produce, save and
market Petroleum Substances, including fee simple interests in Petroleum
Substances and interests granted pursuant to instruments commonly known as
Crown or freehold petroleum and/or natural gas leases, licenses or
permits, but not Royalty Interests;
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(nn)
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"Petroleum Substances"
means petroleum, natural gas and related hydrocarbons, (including
condensate and natural gas liquids) and all other substances (including
sulphur and its compounds), whether liquid, solid or gaseous and whether
hydrocarbons or not, produced in association
therewith;
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(oo)
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"Probable Reserves"
means those reserves which may be recoverable as a result of the
beneficial effects which may be derived from the future institution of
some form of pressure maintenance or other secondary recovery method, or
as a result of a more favourable performance of the existing recovery
mechanism than that which would be deemed proved at the present time, or
those reserves which may reasonably be assumed to exist because of
geophysical or geological indications and drilling done in regions which
contain Proved Reserves;
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(pp)
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"Production" means the
produced Petroleum Substances attributed to the Property
Interests;
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(qq)
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"Production Costs" means
the aggregate, without duplication, of the following items which are paid
(directly or indirectly) by
Grantor:
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(i)
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Debt
Service Charges;
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(ii)
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the
Grantor's Share of all costs and expenses in respect of the Property
Interests including, without
limitation:
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(A)
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costs
and expenses of obtaining, processing, reprocessing and interpreting
seismic, geological and other data;
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(B)
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drilling
costs, completion costs, equipping costs, re-entry and operating costs of
wells (including costs of redrilling, deepening, plugging-back,
side-tracking, fracing and acidizing wells and costs and expenses of
workovers);
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(C)
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costs
and expenses of power generation;
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(D)
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costs
and expenses of waterflood, miscible flood and other secondary and
tertiary recovery operations as well as associated studies and
simulations;
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(E)
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costs
and expenses of compressing, dehydrating, gathering, treating and
processing Production;
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(F)
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costs
and expenses of acquiring Tangibles (including costs and expenses of
constructing Facilities), except when acquired pursuant to Acquisitions,
and costs and expenses of maintaining, repairing and operating
Tangibles;
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(G)
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royalties
and similar burdens (including freehold lessors' royalties and gross
overriding royalties) to which the Property Interests are subject, other
than Non-Deductible Crown
Royalties;
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(H)
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amounts
paid in respect of Surface Rights, including bonuses and
rentals;
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(I)
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costs
and expenses of acquiring Miscellaneous Interests, except when acquired
pursuant to Acquisitions;
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(J)
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costs
and expenses of transporting (whether by pipelines, trucking or otherwise)
Production;
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(K)
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costs
and expenses of delivery and sale of Production including marketing
fees;
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(L)
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insurance
premiums and similar items and property, municipal, production, ad
valorem, mineral and other taxes and assessments in respect of the
Property Interests or the operation thereof or
Production;
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(M)
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costs
and expenses (including settlement payments and payments
of judgments) payable in respect of third party claims arising
in connection with the Property
Interests;
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(N)
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costs
and expenses of abandonment of wells and decommissioning of Facilities and
other Tangibles and of reclaiming and restoring the surface sites thereof
including costs and expenses of investigating and monitoring such wells,
Facilities and sites;
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(O)
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costs
and expenses of clean-up and remediation of spills of hazardous substances
and other environmental damage including costs and expenses of
investigating and monitoring such spills or other environmental
damages;
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(P)
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costs
and expenses of drilling, equipping and operating injection
wells;
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(Q)
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costs
and expenses associated with drilling contracts, transportation contracts
or other contract settlements that are not assigned to specific
properties; and
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(R)
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all
other costs and expenses (including both operating costs and capital
costs) which are payable pursuant to the Title and Operating
Documents;
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(iii)
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income
taxes, capital taxes and other taxes of the Grantor or installments paid
or refunds in connection therewith reasonably allocable by the Grantor to
Property Interests;
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(iv)
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amounts
contributed to the Reclamation
Fund;
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(v)
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amounts
contributed to the Reserve Fund;
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(vi)
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General
and Administrative Costs;
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(vii)
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Acquisition
Costs;
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(viii)
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costs
and expenses of generating Residual Revenues including costs in respect of
Commodity Price and Currency Swaps;
and
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(ix)
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all
costs and expenses not listed above related to the Property
Interests;
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(rr)
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"Production Revenues"
means, in respect of any period, the gross proceeds from the sale of
Production which are received during such period, but do not include ARTC
or income from Royalty Interests;
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(ss)
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"Property Interests"
means all interests in Petroleum and Natural Gas Rights and in related
Tangibles and Miscellaneous Interests beneficially owned by the Grantor
from time to time (without taking into account the
NPI);
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(tt)
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"Proved Reserves" means
those quantities of crude oil, natural gas and natural gas by-products,
which, upon analysis of geologic and engineering data, appear with a high
degree of certainty to be recoverable at commercial rates in the future
from known oil and gas reservoirs under, in the case of escalated price
assumptions, presently anticipated and, in the case of constant pricing
assumptions, existing economic and operating
conditions;
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(uu)
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"Reclamation Fund" means
the fund described in clause 7.1;
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(vv)
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"Reserve" shall have the
meaning ascribed thereto in clause
7.3;
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(ww)
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"Residual Revenues"
means the Grantor's Share of all net revenues which are received by
Grantor in respect of the Property Interests (other than NPI Revenues and
the net proceeds of a disposition of Petroleum and Natural Gas Rights
allocated to the interests in the NPI sold pursuant to such disposition)
and the Royalty Interests, including: (A) fees and similar
payments made by third parties for the processing, transportation,
gathering or treatment of their Petroleum Substances in, by or through
Tangibles; (B) proceeds from the sale of Tangibles and Miscellaneous
Interests; (C) insurance proceeds, excluding business interruption
insurance and property damage insurance to the extent such amounts are
used to purchase additional Property Interests subject to the NPI; (D)
proceeds from the sale or licensing of seismic and similar data; (E)
incentives, rebates and credits in respect of Production Costs; (F)
revenues from Commodity Price and Currency Swaps; (G) take or pay and
similar payments made to the Grantor in lieu of a buyer purchasing some of
the Production or as compensation for a buyer not purchasing some of the
Production; and (H) ARTC received by the
Grantor;
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(xx)
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"Royalty Interests"
means royalty interests, net profits interests and similar interests
pursuant to which the owner thereof is entitled to a share of the
production of Petroleum Substances from the lands or wells to which the
interests relate or to a payment calculated by reference to the quantity
of such production or to a payment calculated by the proceeds, (whether
gross or net) received from the sale of such
production;
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(yy)
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"Special Resolution" has
the meaning set forth in the Trust Indenture, as amended from time to
time;
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(zz)
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"Surface Rights" means
interests in the surface of lands which are used or held for use in
connection with Petroleum and Natural Gas Rights or Tangibles, including
(i) rights to use the surface of lands for purposes of drilling and
operating oil and gas wells or injection wells, (ii) rights to use the
surface of lands for the location of Tangibles or in connection with the
operation thereof and (iii) rights to use the surface of lands to gain
access to such wells or such Tangibles, and including surface leases,
licenses of occupation, roads, road use agreements, pipeline easements and
similar rights;
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(aaa)
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"Swap Arrangements"
means Commodity Price and Currency Swaps and Interest Rate
Swaps;
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(bbb)
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"Tangibles" means all
tangible property, apparatus, plant, equipment, machinery and facilities
used or held for use, from time to time, for purposes of producing
Petroleum Substances from the NPI Lands or lands pooled or unitized
therewith or for storing, measuring, compressing, treating, processing or
collecting such Petroleum Substances, including wellheads, wellhead
equipment, tanks, pumps, pump jacks, separators, dehydrators, flow lines
and Facilities;
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(ccc)
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"Third Party" means any
Person other than the Grantor, the NPI Holder or an Affiliate of the
Grantor;
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(ddd)
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"Title and Operating
Documents" means: (i) the contracts and agreements
pursuant to which the Grantor derives its interest in the Property
Interests, including Crown and freehold petroleum and natural gas leases,
agreements of purchase and sale, farm-in agreements, unit agreements and
royalty agreements; and (ii) contracts and agreements entered into in the
normal course of the oil and gas business in connection with the
exploitation of Petroleum and Natural Gas Rights or the operation of
Facilities, including joint operating agreements, unit operating
agreements, farmout agreements, pooling agreements, royalty agreements,
common stream agreements, gas processing agreements, gas gathering
agreements, agreements for the sale of Petroleum Substances, agreements
relating to Surface Rights, agreements for the construction, ownership and
operation of Facilities and agreements for the transportation of Petroleum
Substances;
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(eee)
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"Trust" means Baytex
Energy Trust, a trust formed pursuant to the laws of Alberta pursuant to
the Trust Indenture;
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(fff)
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"Trust Indenture" means
the amended and restated trust indenture entitled "Amended and Restated
Trust Indenture" dated as of September 2, 2003 between the Grantor and
Valiant Trust Company pursuant to which the Trust is governed, as may be
amended and restated from time to
time;
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(ggg)
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"Trust Unit" means a
fractional undivided interest in the Trust;
and
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(hhh)
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"Unitholders" means
holders, from time to time, of Trust
Units.
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1.2
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Number
and Gender
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1.3
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References
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1.4
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Choice
of Law
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1.5
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Attornment
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1.6
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Monetary
Sums
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1.7
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Meaning
of "including"
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1.8
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Legal
Fees
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1.9
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1990
CAPL Terms
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1.10
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Effective
Time
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2.1
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Grant
of NPI
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2.2
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Payment
for NPI
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(a)
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In
addition to all amounts previously paid by the NPI Holder to the Grantor,
the NPI Holder hereby agrees to pay to the Grantor as consideration for
the NPI, an amount (the "Deferred Purchase Price
Obligation") equal to without
duplication:
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(i)
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99%
percent of the portion of Future Acquisition Costs, which are attributable
to Canadian Resource Property payable at the time of incurring such Future
Acquisition Costs;
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(ii)
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99%
percent of the Capital Expenditures which are attributable to Canadian
Exploration Expense or Canadian Development Expense in respect of Property
Interests payable at the time of incurring such Capital Expenditures;
and
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(iii)
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99%
percent of the portion of indebtedness incurred in respect of the portion
of Future Acquisition Costs and Capital Expenditures otherwise payable by
the Holder as contemplated by paragraphs (i) and (ii), which shall be
payable at the time of satisfaction by the Grantor of such
indebtedness.
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(b)
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The
NPI Holder will pay over to the Grantor, to satisfy the Deferred Purchase
Price Obligation, the net proceeds of any issue of Trust Units or, except
as provided in clause 11.4, the proceeds from the disposition of the NPI
on Property Interests disposed of by the Grantor pursuant to clause
11.2.
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(c)
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Except
as provided in clause 11.4, the NPI Holder shall not be obligated to pay
an amount as a Deferred Purchase Price Obligation except to the extent the
NPI Holder has available the proceeds referred to in subclause 2.2(b)
above.
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2.3
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NPI
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2.4
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Ownership
of Production
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2.5
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Petroleum
Substances Lost or Used in
Operations
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2.6
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Not
an Interest In Land
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2.7
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Reimbursement
of Non-Deductible Crown Royalties
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2.8
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Future
Acquisitions
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3.1
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Payments
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3.2
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Statements
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3.3
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Overpayments
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3.4
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Collection
of Production Revenues and Residual
Revenues
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3.5
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Payment
of Production Costs
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(a)
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firstly,
Debt Payments; and
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(b)
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secondly,
in payment of all other Production
Costs.
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3.6
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Trust
Expenses
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4.1
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Maintenance
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5.1
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Examination
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5.2
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Audit
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5.3
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Confidentiality
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6.1
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Generally
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(a)
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operations
on the NPI Lands and lands pooled or unitized therewith for the recovery
of Petroleum Substances and the operation of the Tangibles are conducted
in a good and workmanlike manner, in accordance with good oilfield and
engineering practice and in compliance with all applicable statutes,
regulations, permits and governmental
approvals;
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(b)
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all
of its duties and obligations under the Title and Operating Documents are
diligently and promptly performed and all amounts payable as rental,
royalty or similar charges from time to time due in respect of the
Property Interests are paid and all other actions as may be reasonably
necessary to maintain the Title and Operating Documents in good standing
at all times are taken, subject to the terms and provisions hereof;
and
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(c)
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all
Surface Rights needed for the proper operation of the Property Interests
and the Tangibles are acquired and maintained in good standing and all
taxes, rates, assessments and other amounts from time to time payable in
respect of the Property Interests are promptly
paid.
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6.2
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No
Obligation to Develop
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6.3
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Rights
and Obligations
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6.4
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Marketing
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6.5
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Additional
Title and Operating Documents
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6.6
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No
Other Business
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6.7
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Credit
Facilities Subordination
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6.8
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Borrowing
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6.9
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Carry
Forward of Deductible Production
Costs
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7.1
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Establishment
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7.2
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Contributions
to the Reclamation Fund
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7.3
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Reserve
Fund
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(a)
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Any
Excess Revenues for a month which are in excess of 10% of the Production
Revenues for that month shall be paid into the Reserve prior to the
15th
day of the second month following the end of the month;
and
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(b)
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any
Production Revenues or other revenues in excess of those described in
paragraph (a) above which, pursuant to the provisions of any Credit
Facilities, the Grantor is required to keep on deposit in its bank account
or bank accounts or invest investments which secure the Credit
Facilities.
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7.4
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Use
of Reclamation Fund
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7.5
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Termination
of Reclamation Fund
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7.6
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Reclamation
Trust
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(a)
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the
Grantor shall establish such a
vehicle;
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(b)
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the
amount then contained in the Reclamation Fund shall be paid to such
vehicle;
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(c)
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thereafter,
amounts which would otherwise have been paid into the Reclamation Fund
pursuant to clause 7.2 will, instead, be paid to such vehicle;
and
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(d)
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thereafter,
for purposes of computing Production Costs and Deductible Production Costs
payments to or from such vehicle shall be deemed to be payments to or from
the Reclamation Fund.
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8.1
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Pooling
and Unitization
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8.2
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Surrender
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8.3
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Abandonment
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9.1
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Consent
to Assign Agreement
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9.2
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Multiple
NPI Holders
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9.3
|
Grant
of Security
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9.4
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Dispositions
Subject to This Agreement
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10.1
|
Term
|
11.1
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Dispositions
of Tangibles and Miscellaneous
Interests
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11.2
|
Dispositions
of Petroleum and Natural Gas Rights
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(a)
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The
Grantor shall have the right to sell, assign, transfer or surrender
interests in Petroleum and Natural Gas Rights comprised in the Property
Interests without complying with clause 9.1 if, in the opinion of the
Grantor, such disposition is in the best interests of the NPI Holder (any
sale, assignment, transfer, foreclosure, other disposition or surrender of
interests in Petroleum and Natural Gas Rights, herein called a "Disposition"). The
Grantor shall not make a Disposition where the proceeds of the Disposition
exceeds $10 million unless the board of directors of the Grantor has
approved the Disposition.
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(b)
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Notwithstanding
subclause 11.2(a), the Grantor shall have no right to sell Property
Interests where the Property Interests included in such sale, represents
all or substantially all of the Property Interests except to an Affiliate
of the Grantor or the NPI Holder, unless such sale has been approved by a
Special Resolution.
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11.3
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Disposition
of NPI
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11.4
|
Proceeds
of a Disposition
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(a)
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bona fide agreement
between the parties;
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(b)
|
agreement
between the parties and the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency;
or
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(c)
|
a
final decision of a court of competent jurisdiction in respect of which no
further appeal may be taken or in respect of which the applicable appeal
periods have elapsed,
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11.5
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Farmouts
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11.6
|
Redemption,
Surrender, Merger, Transfer or Sale of the NPI Only by the
Grantor
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12.1
|
Addresses
for Service and Payments
|
12.2
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Giving
and Deemed Receipt of Notices
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(a)
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by
delivering it to the Party to whom it is being given at that Party's
address for notices hereunder, provided such delivery shall be during
normal business hours of the addressee of a Business Day. Such
notice shall be deemed to be received by the addressee when actually
delivered as aforesaid; or
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(b)
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by
telecopier (or by any other like method by which a written and recorded
message may be sent) directed to the Party to whom it is being given at
that Party's telecopy number for notices hereunder. Such
notices shall be deemed received by the addressee thereof (i) when
actually received by it if sent within the normal working hours of a
Business Day, or (ii) otherwise at the commencement of the next ensuing
Business Day following transmission
thereof.
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12.3
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Addresses
|
12.4
|
Change
of Address
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13.1
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Enurement
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13.2
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Waivers
in Writing
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13.3
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Time
of Essence
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13.4
|
No
Partnership
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13.5
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Severability
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13.6
|
Amendments
|
13.7
|
Amendment
and Restatement
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14.1
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Acknowledgment
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BAYTEX
ENERGY LTD.
Per:(signed) "Raymond T.
Chan"
Per: (signed) "Daniel G.
Belot"
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BAYTEX
ENERGY TRUST by its Administrator Baytex Energy Ltd.
Per:(signed) "Raymond T.
Chan"
Per: (signed) "Daniel G.
Belot"
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