Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
Senior Housing Properties Trust, or the Company, hereby incorporates by reference into this Registration Statement the following documents filed with the Commission:
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Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012;
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Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2013 and June 30, 2013;
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Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on January 22, 2013, January 24, 2013, May 15, 2013, August 14, 2013 and September 9, 2013;
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the information identified as incorporated by reference under Items 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of Part III of the Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012, from the Companys definitive Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders held on May 9, 2013;
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the description of the Companys common shares contained in the Companys Registration Statement on Form 8-A dated September 21, 1999, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating that description; and
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the description of the Companys junior participating preferred share purchase rights contained in the Companys Registration Statement on Form 8-A dated March 18, 2004, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating that description.
All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.
Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement herein, or in any subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference, modifies or supersedes such statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
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