EX-24.1 6 tm2131451d2_ex24-1.htm EXHIBIT 24.1

Exhibit 24.1

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

Each of the undersigned does hereby:

 

(i)make, constitute and appoint each of, Michael Rowland, Chief Financial Officer, Joanne Dawson, Group Treasurer, Alexander Bischoff, Managing Director, Balance Sheet, Liquidity & Funding Management, Gordon Bell, General Manager, Group Finance, Christopher Bannister, General Manager Europe and America, Michael Clayton, General Counsel, Corporate, Treasury & Technology, Adrian Jamolin Counsel and Head of Legal (Acting), Group Treasury and Yvette Adiguzel, Senior Lawyer, New York, Legal, WIB (or any person from time to time acting in each such office or substantially similar office as shall replace it) acting alone, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power to act in his or her name, place and stead to execute on his or her behalf, as an officer and/or director of Westpac Banking Corporation (the “Bank”), a registration statement of the Bank on Form F-3 for the offer and sale, at any time or from time to time, of senior debt securities of the Bank (the “Senior Registration Statement”) and a registration statement of the Bank on Form F-3 for the offer and sale at any time or from time to time, of subordinated debt securities of the Bank (the “Subordinated Registration Statement”, and together with the Senior Registration Statement, the “Registration Statements” and each a “Registration Statement”), including a prospectus and exhibits to such Registration Statement, and any and all amendments or supplements to each Registration Statement (including any and all post-effective amendments, including post-effective amendments to register additional classes or types of securities) and any and all additional registration statements, and any amendments thereto, relating to the same offering of securities as those that are covered by each Registration Statement that are filed pursuant to Rule 462(b), and to file the same with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Act”), and any applicable securities exchange or securities self-regulatory body, and any and all other instruments which any of said attorneys-in-fact and agents deems necessary or advisable to enable the Bank to comply with the Act, the rules, regulations and requirements of the SEC in respect thereof, and, if applicable, the securities or Blue Sky laws of any State or other governmental subdivision;

 

(ii)give and grant to each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing whatsoever necessary or appropriate to be done in and about the premises as he or she might or could do in person, with full power of substitution and resubstitution; and

 

(iii)ratify and confirm all that his or her said attorneys-in-fact and agents or substitutes may or shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto subscribed this power of attorney this 3rd day of November  2021

 

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/s/ John McFarlane   Chairman
John McFarlane  
     
/s/ Nerida Caesar   Director
Nerida Caesar    
     
/s/ Craig Dunn   Director
Craig Dunn    
     
/s/ Audette Exel   Director
Audette Exel    
     
/s/ Michael Hawker   Director
Michael Hawker    
     
/s/ Chris Lynch   Director
Chris Lynch    
     
/s/ Peter Marriott   Director
Peter Marriott    
     
/s/ Peter Nash   Director
Peter Nash    
     
/s/ Nora Scheinkestel   Director
Nora Scheinkestel    
     
/s/ Margaret Seale   Director
Margaret Seale    
     
/s/ Peter King   Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Peter King    (Principal Executive Officer)
     
/s/ Michael Rowland   Chief Financial Officer
Michael Rowland   (Principal Financial Officer)
     
/s/ Gordon Bell   General Manager, Group Finance
Gordon Bell    (Principal Accounting Officer)
     
/s/ Yvette Adiguzel   Authorized Representative in the United States
Yvette Adiguzel    

 

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