Article
I
Title; Definitions
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Section 1.01.
This Agreement may be cited as the “Second Nam Ngum Development Fund Agreement, 1974”.
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Section 1.02.
Except where the context otherwise requires, the following terms have the following meanings wherever used in this Agreement:
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(a)
“Administrator” means the Bank acting in the capacity of Administrator of the Fund;
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(b)
“Bank” means the Asian Development Bank;
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(c)
“Bilateral Lenders” means the Government of Canada and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, representing itself and KFW;
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(d)
“bilateral loans” means the loan by KFW to EDL referred to in Section 3.04 and the loan by the Government of Canada to Laos referred to in Section 3.05;
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(e)
“Contributing Parties” means the Governments of Australia, India, Japan, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States;
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(f)
“currency” means such coin or currency as at the relevant time is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts in the territories of the government referred to;
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(g)
“dollars” and “$” mean dollars in currency of the United States;
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(h)
“EDL” means Electricité du Laos, a corporation established under the provisions of the Ordonnance Royale No. 38 dated 26 January 1959 of the Kingdom of Laos;
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(i)
“EGAT” means Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, a corporation established under the provisions of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand Act (B.E. 2511), as amended from time to time, of the Kingdom of Thailand;
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(j)
“Energy Supply Agreement” means the agreement dated 22 June 1971 between EDL and EGAT relating to the sale of energy by EDL to EGAT from the Nam Ngum hydropower facilities;
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(k)
“Financing Agreement” means the agreement between Laos and EDL referred to in Section 4.01;
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(l)
“foreign currency” means any currency other than kip;
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(m)
“Fund” means the Second Nam Ngum Development Fund established by this Agreement;
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(n)
“goods” means equipment, supplies and services required for the Project or for the carrying out of the Administrator's duties hereunder; wherever reference is made to the cost of any goods, such cost shall be deemed to include the cost of importing such goods into the territories of the Kingdom of Laos;
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(o)
“KFW” means Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau, a corporation established under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany;
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(p)
“kip” means the currency of the Kingdom of Laos;
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(q)
“Laos” means the Kingdom of Laos represented by the Government of Laos;
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(r)
“OECF” means The Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund, a corporation established under the laws of Japan;
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(s)
“OECF Loan” means the loan by OECF to Laos referred to in Section 3.03;
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(t)
“Parties” means the Governments named in the Preamble to his Agreement as parties and the Bank, and any other Government, institution or entity which shall become a party to this Agreement pursuant to Article XII;
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(u)
“Project” means the second phase of construction of the Nam Ngum hydropower facilities described in the Schedule, as such description may be amended from time to time by agreement between the Parties;
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(v)
“Project Agreement” means the agreement between Laos, EDL and the Bank referred to in Recital (H) of the Preamble to this Agreement; and
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(w)
“Thailand” means the Kingdom of Thailand represented by the Royal Government of Thailand.
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(a)
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Section 1.03.
Unless otherwise specified, references in this Agreement to Articles, Sections or the Schedule are, respectively, to Articles, Sections and the Schedule of this Agreement.