Committee Authority. This Award shall be administered by the Committee, which shall adopt rules and regulations for carrying out the purposes of the Award and, without limitation, may delegate all of what, in its sole discretion, it determines to be ministerial duties to the Administrator; provided, further, that the determinations under, and the interpretations of, any provision of the Award by the Committee shall, in all cases, be in its sole discretion, and shall be final and conclusive.

Committee Authority. It will be the duty of the Committee to administer the Plan in accordance with the Plan’s provisions. The Committee will have all powers and discretion necessary or appropriate to administer the Plan and to control its operation, including, but not limited to, the power to # determine which Employees will be granted awards, # prescribe the terms and conditions of awards, # interpret the Plan and the awards, # adopt such procedures and sub-plans as are necessary or appropriate to permit participation in the Plan by Employees who are foreign nationals or employed outside of the United States, # adopt rules for the administration, interpretation and application of the Plan as are consistent therewith, and # interpret, amend or revoke any such rules.

Committee Authority. The Committee will have the power to interpret the Plan and this Agreement and to adopt such rules for the administration, interpretation and application of the Plan as are consistent therewith and to interpret or revoke any such rules (including, but not limited to, the determination of whether or not any Performance Shares have vested). All actions taken and all interpretations and determinations made by the Committee in good faith will be final and binding upon the Employee, the Company and all other interested persons. No member of the Committee will be personally liable for any action, determination or interpretation made in good faith with respect to the Plan or this Agreement.

Authority of Committee. The Committee shall be the “plan administrator” within the meaning of ERISA and shall have exclusive responsibility and authority to control and manage the operation and administration of the Plan, including the interpretation and application of its provisions, except to the extent such responsibility and authority are otherwise specifically # allocated to the Bank, the Employers, or the Trustee under the Plan and Trust Agreement, # delegated in writing to other persons by the Bank, the Employers, the Committee, or the Trustee, or # allocated to other parties by operation of law. The Committee shall have exclusive responsibility regarding decisions concerning the payment of benefits under the Plan. The Committee shall have no investment responsibility with respect to the Investment Fund except to the extent, if any, specifically provided in the Trust Agreement. In the discharge of its duties, the Committee may employ accountants, actuaries, legal counsel, and other agents (who also may be employed by an Employer or the Trustee in the same or some other capacity) and may pay their reasonable expenses and compensation.

AUTHORITY OF COMMITTEE. The Committee has the exclusive power, authority and discretion to:

General Committee Authority. Each Committee has solely the powers expressly assigned to it in this Article 4 and elsewhere in this Agreement. No Committee will have any power to amend, modify, or waive compliance with this Agreement. It is expressly understood and agreed that the control of decision-making authority by Unum or SGI, as applicable, pursuant to [Section 4.6], so as to resolve a disagreement or deadlock on a Committee for any matter will not authorize either Party to perform any function or exercise any decision-making right not delegated to a Committee or such Party, and that neither Unum nor SGI has any right to unilaterally modify or amend, or waive its own compliance with, the terms of this Agreement.

The Plan shall be administered by the Committee. A majority vote of the Committee at which a quorum is present, or acts reduced to or approved in writing by a majority of the members of the Committee, shall be the valid acts of the Committee for the purposes of the Plan.

Authority of the Committee. The Committee shall have full authority to interpret and construe the terms of the Plan and this Agreement. The determination of the Committee as to any such matter of interpretation or construction, including, without limitation, as to any adjustment or related matter under Section 3 hereof or any matter under Section 4 hereof, shall be final, binding and conclusive.

Committee. “Committee” means the Compensation and Management Development Committee of the Board, or a sub-committee of that Committee.

Committee. The Human Capital Management Committee of the Board or any duly appointed sub-committee or successor committee performing similar duties.