The Electronic Money Regulations 2011

Certified persons

76.—(1) Any person who—

(a) has a certificate (which has not been revoked) given by the Authority under article 9C of the Financial Services and Markets 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001(1) (“the Order”); and

(b) before 30th April 2011 has carried on the activity of issuing electronic money in accordance with that certificate,

may continue to carry on that activity in accordance with that certificate and engage in any related activity until 30th April 2012 or, if the person is included on the register as an electronic money institution before that date, until the time of such inclusion.

(2) Parts 5 and 6 of these Regulations, and Part 16 of, and Schedule 17 to, the 2000 Act (the ombudsman scheme)(2), shall apply to a person falling within paragraph (1) as if the person were an electronic money institution.

(1)

S.I. 2001/544; amended by S.I. 2006/3221; article 9C was inserted by S.I. 2002/682.

(2)

Part 16 and Schedule 17 were amended by the Consumer Credit Act 2006 (c.14), sections 59, 60 and 61 and Schedule 2, by the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c.15), section 62(3) and Schedule 13 and by S.I. 2009/209.