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REGULATION S OF THE SECURITIES ACT 1933

a.      U.S. person.

1.      "U.S. person" means:

                                                         i.            Any natural person resident in the United States;

                                                       ii.            Any partnership or corporation organized or incorporated under the laws of the United States;

                                                      iii.            Any estate of which any executor or administrator is a U.S. person;

                                                     iv.            Any trust of which any trustee is a U.S. person;

                                                       v.            Any agency or branch of a foreign entity located in the United States;

                                                     vi.            Any non-discretionary account or similar account (other than an estate or trust) held by a dealer or other fiduciary for the benefit or account of a U.S. person;

                                                    vii.            Any discretionary account or similar account (other than an estate or trust) held by a dealer or other fiduciary organized, incorporated, or (if an individual) resident in the United States; and

                                                  viii.            Any partnership or corporation if:

A.      Organized or incorporated under the laws of any foreign jurisdiction; and

B.      Formed by a U.S. person principally for the purpose of investing in securities not registered under the Act, unless it is organized or incorporated, and owned, by accredited investors (as defined in Rule 501(a)) who are not natural persons, estates or trusts.

2.      The following are not "U.S. persons":

                                                         i.            Any discretionary account or similar account (other than an estate or trust) held for the benefit or account of a non-U.S. person by a dealer or other professional fiduciary organized, incorporated, or (if an individual) resident in the United States;

                                                       ii.            Any estate of which any professional fiduciary acting as executor or administrator is a U.S. person if:

A.      An executor or administrator of the estate who is not a U.S. person has sole or shared investment discretion with respect to the assets of the estate; and

B.      The estate is governed by foreign law;

                                                      iii.            Any trust of which any professional fiduciary acting as trustee is a U.S. person, if a trustee who is not a U.S. person has sole or shared investment discretion with respect to the trust assets, and no beneficiary of the trust (and no settlor if the trust is revocable) is a U.S. person;

                                                     iv.            An employee benefit plan established and administered in accordance with the law of a country other than the United States and customary practices and documentation of such country;

                                                       v.            Any agency or branch of a U.S. person located outside the United States if:

A.      The agency or branch operates for valid business reasons; and

B.      The agency or branch is engaged in the business of insurance or banking and is subject to substantive insurance or banking regulation, respectively, in the jurisdiction where located; and

                                                     vi.            The International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, the United Nations, and their agencies, affiliates and pension plans, and any other similar international organizations, their agencies, affiliates and pension plans.

b.      United States. "United States" means the United States of America, its territories and possessions, any State of the United States, and the District of Columbia.

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