SCHEDULE

PART IVPERSONS EXEMPT IN RESPECT OF PARTICULAR REGULATED ACTIVITIES

Charities

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1

A charity is exempt from the general prohibition in respect of any regulated activity of the kind specified by article 51 of the Regulated Activities Order (establishing etc. a collective investment scheme) which it carries on in relation to a fund established under—

a

section 22A of the Charities Act 196028;

b

section 25 of the Charities Act 199329; or

c

section 25 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 196430.

2

A charity is exempt from the general prohibition in respect of any regulated activity of the kind specified by article 51 of the Regulated Activities Order (establishing etc. a collective investment scheme) which it carries on in relation to a pooling scheme fund established under—

a

section 22 of the Charities Act 1960; or

b

section 24 of the Charities Act 1993.

3

In sub-paragraph (2), “pooling scheme fund” means a fund established by a common investment scheme the trusts of which provide that property is not to be transferred to the fund except by or on behalf of a charity, the charity trustees (within the meaning of section 97(1) of the Charities Act 1993) of which are the trustees appointed to manage the fund.