Part XVII Collective Investment Schemes

Chapter III Authorised Unit Trust Schemes

Applications for authorisation

C1I1242 Applications for authorisation of unit trust schemes.

1

Any application for an order declaring a unit trust scheme to be an authorised unit trust scheme must be made to the F1FCA by the manager and trustee, or proposed manager and trustee, of the scheme.

2

The manager and trustee (or proposed manager and trustee) must be different persons.

3

The application—

a

must be made in such manner as the F1FCA may direct; and

b

must contain or be accompanied by such information as the F1FCA may reasonably require for the purpose of determining the application.

4

At any time after receiving an application and before determining it, the F1FCA may require the applicants to provide it with such further information as it reasonably considers necessary to enable it to determine the application.

5

Different directions may be given, and different requirements imposed, in relation to different applications.

6

The F1FCA may require applicants to present information which they are required to give under this section in such form, or to verify it in such a way, as the F1FCA may direct.