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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="8-508" title_number="8" title_name="Investment Securities" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Security Entitlements">
  <text>A securities intermediary shall act at the direction of an entitlement holder to change a security entitlement into another available form of holding for which the entitlement holder is eligible, or to cause the financial asset to be transferred to a securities account of the entitlement holder with another securities intermediary. A securities intermediary satisfies the duty if:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>The securities intermediary acts as agreed upon by the entitlement holder and the securities intermediary; or</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>In the absence of agreement, the securities intermediary exercises due care in accordance with reasonable commercial standards to follow the direction of the entitlement holder.</text>
  </level>
</section>
