The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001

The Local Government Pension Scheme (Management and Investment of Funds) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1831)

Interpretation of the 1998 Regulations: general

574.  In regulation 2 of the Local Government Pension Scheme (Management and Investment of Funds) Regulations 1998 (general definitions)(1)—

(a) the existing provision becomes paragraph (1);

(b) the definitions of “European authorised institution” and “European institution” are revoked;

(c) the definition of “home-regulated investment business” is revoked;

(d) for the definition of “relevant institution” substitute—

• ““relevant institution” means—

  (a)

  a person who has permission under Part 4 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to accept deposits;

  (b)

  an EEA firm of the kind mentioned in paragraph 5(b) of Schedule 3 to that Act which 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; or

  (c)

  a person who is an exempt person in respect of accepting deposits as a result of an order made under section 38(1) of that Act;”;

(e) after paragraph (1) insert—

“(2) The definition of “relevant institution” in paragraph (1), together with regulations 3(5) to (6A) and 4(2) and paragraph 4 of Part I of Schedule 1, must be read with—

(a) section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;

(b) any relevant order under that section; and

(c) Schedule 2 to that Act.”.

Definition of “investment”

575.—(1) Regulation 3 of the Local Government Pension Scheme (Management and Investment of Funds) Regulations 1998 (definition of “investment”)(2) is amended as follows.

(2) For paragraphs (5) and (6) substitute—

“(5) A contract of insurance is an investment if and only if it is a contract of a relevant class, and is entered into with a person within paragraph (6) for whom entering into the contract constitutes the carrying on of a regulated activity (within the meaning of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000).

(6) The persons within this paragraph are—

(a) a person who has permission under Part 4 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to effect or carry out contracts of insurance of a relevant class;

(b) an EEA firm of the kind mentioned in paragraph 5(d) of Schedule 3 to that Act, which has permission under paragraph 15 of that Schedule (as a result of qualifying for authorisation under paragraph 12 of that Schedule) to effect or carry out contracts of insurance of a relevant class; or

(c) a person who does not fall within sub-paragraph (a) or (b) and who, because he has his head office in an EEA State (within the meaning of that Act) other than the United Kingdom, is permitted by the law of that State to effect or carry out contracts of insurance of a relevant class.

(6A) A contract of insurance is of a relevant class for the purposes of paragraphs (5) and (6) if it is—

(a) a contract of insurance on human life or a contract to pay an annuity on human life where the benefits are wholly or partly to be determined by reference to the value of, or the income from, property of any description (whether or not specified in the contract) or by reference to fluctuations in, or in an index of, the value of property of any description (whether or not so specified); or

(b) a contract to manage the investments of pension funds, whether or not combined with contracts of insurance covering either conservation of capital or payment of a minimum interest.”.

(3) For paragraphs (7) and (8) substitute—

“(7) A stock lending arrangement is an investment if and only if, in respect of it, the conditions in rules 5.14.4R and 5.14.6R in the Collective Investment Scheme Sourcebook are complied with.

(8) For the purposes of paragraph (7)—

(a) references in rules 5.14.4R and 5.14.6R to the trustee must be read as if they were references to the administering authority, and

(b) the “Collective Investment Scheme Sourcebook” means the Collective Investment Scheme Sourcebook made by the Financial Services Authority under Part 10 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.”.

Definition of “investment manager”

576.  In regulation 4 of the Local Government Pension Scheme (Management and Investment of Funds) Regulations 1998 (definition of “investment manager”), for paragraphs (2) to (4) substitute—

“(2) A person is an investment manager if—

(a) he has permission under Part 4 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to manage investments and may lawfully manage the assets of occupational pension schemes;

(b) he is an EEA firm of the kind mentioned in sub-paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to that Act, which has permission under paragraph 15 of that Schedule (as a result of qualifying for authorisation under paragraph 12 of that Schedule) to manage investments and may lawfully manage the assets of occupational pension schemes; or

(c) he is a person—

(i) who does not carry on regulated activities (within the meaning of that Act) from a permanent place of business maintained by him in the United Kingdom;

(ii) whose head office is situated in an EEA State (within the meaning of that Act) other than the United Kingdom;

(iii) who is recognised by the law of that EEA State as a national of that or another EEA State;

(iv) who is authorised under that law to carry on one or more regulated activities (within the meaning of that Act); and

(v) who is not prevented by that law from managing the assets of occupational pension schemes or assets belonging to another person.”.

Limits on investments

577.  For paragraph 4 of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Local Government Pension Scheme (Management and Investment of Funds) Regulations 1998 (limits on investments)(3) substitute—

“4.   All deposits with—

(a) any local authority, or

(b) any body with power to issue a precept or requisition to a local authority, or to the expenses of which a local authority can be required to contribute,

which is an exempt person (within the meaning of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000) in respect of accepting deposits as a result of an order made under section 38(1) of that Act, and all loans (but see paragraph 12).”.

Definition of “open-ended investment company”

578.  In Part III of the Schedule to the Local Government Pension Scheme (Management and Investment of Funds) Regulations 1998 (Interpretation), in the definition of “open-ended investment company”(4) for “section 78(5) of the Financial Services Act 1986” substitute “section 236 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000”.

(1)

Amended by S.I. 1999/3259.

(2)

Amended by S.I. 2000/2552.

(3)

Amended by S.I. 1999/3259.

(4)

The definition of “open-ended investment company” was substituted by S.I. 1999/3259.