Savings Clause. In the event any provision of the Plan shall be held illegal or invalid for any reason, the illegality or invalidity shall not affect the remaining parts of the Plan, and the Plan shall be construed and enforced as if the illegal or invalid provision had not been included. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in this Plan, each provision in this Plan shall be interpreted to permit the deferral of compensation in accordance with Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and any provision that would conflict with such requirements shall not be valid or enforceable.

Savings Clause. If at any time the interest rate set forth in this Note exceeds the maximum interest rate allowable under applicable law, the interest rate shall be deemed to be such maximum interest rate allowable under applicable law.

Savings Clause. If this Agreement or any section, sentence, term or provision hereof is invalidated on any ground by any court of competent jurisdiction, the Company shall nevertheless indemnify the Indemnitee as to any Expenses which are incurred with respect to any Proceeding to the fullest extent permitted by any # applicable section, sentence, term or provision of this Agreement that has not been invalidated or # applicable law.

SAVINGS CLAUSE. Save and except as hereinabove expressly amended, the Plan Statement shall continue in full force and effect.

Savings Clause. In the event that any provision or provisions of any of the covenants in Section 6, 7, 8 and 9 would otherwise be determined by any court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable in whole or in part by reason of being for too great a period of time or covering too great a geographical area or too broad a product market, or for any other reason, each such covenant shall nevertheless remain in full force and effect and be construed so as to be enforceable as to that period of time and geographical area and product market, and on such other conditions, as may be determined to be reasonable by the court.

Clause 8.5.1 of the Agreement shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

Clause 6.1(f)(i) of the Receivables Transfer Agreement shall be amended in its entirety to read as follows:

Clause 6.1 does not apply to the extent any Increased Cost is attributable to the wilful breach by the Lender or its affiliates of any law or regulation or to the transfer, assignment or subparticipation of this facility in accordance with Clause 6.1.

Severability Clause. In the event any provision or part of this Agreement is found to be invalid or unenforceable, only that particular provision or part so found, and not the entire Agreement, shall be inoperative.

In the event that any provision of this Agreement shall be held void or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction which is affirmed on appeal, said judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of this Agreement unless the provision declared totally or partially unenforceable destroys the release of claims provided to the Company in Section II.