(1)Paragraph 6 of Schedule 3 to the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (money received by administrator) is amended as follows.
(2)In sub-paragraph (1) for “an appropriate bank or institution” substitute “a bank or building society”.
(3)For sub-paragraph (3) substitute—
“(3)In sub-paragraph (1)—
(a)“bank” means an authorised deposit-taker, other than a building society, that has its head office or a branch in the United Kingdom;
(b)“building society” has the same meaning as in the Building Societies Act 1986.
(4)In sub-paragraph (3)(a) “authorised deposit-taker” means—
(a)a person who has permission under Part 4A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to accept deposits;
(b)a person who—
(i)is specified, or is within a class of persons specified, by an order under section 38 of that Act (exemption orders), and
(ii)accepts deposits;
(c)an EEA firm of the kind mentioned in paragraph 5(b) of Schedule 3 to that Act that has permission under paragraph 15 of that Schedule (as a result of qualifying for authorisation under paragraph 12(1) of that Schedule) to accept deposits.
(5)A reference in sub-paragraph (4) to a person or firm with permission to accept deposits does not include a person or firm with permission to do so only for the purposes of, or in the course of, an activity other than accepting deposits.”