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<Text>The Secretary of State may by order amend Schedule 1 to this Act so as—</Text>
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<Text>to extend or restrict the meaning of investment for the purposes of all or any provisions of this Act; or</Text>
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<Text>to extend or restrict for the purposes of all or any of those provisions the activities that are to constitute the carrying on of investment business or the carrying on of such business in the United Kingdom.</Text>
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<Text>The amendments that may be made for the purposes of subsection (1)(b) above include amendments conferring powers on the Secretary of State, whether by extending or modifying any provision of that Schedule which confers such powers or by adding further such provisions.</Text>
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<Text>An order under this section which extends the meaning of investment or extends the activities that are to constitute the carrying on of investment business or the carrying on of such business in the United Kingdom shall be laid before Parliament after being made and shall cease to have effect at the end of the period of twenty-eight days beginning with the day on which it is made (but without prejudice to anything done under the order or to the making of a new order) unless before the end of that period the order is approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.</Text>
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<Text>In reckoning the period mentioned in subsection (3) above no account shall be taken of any time during which Parliament is dissolved or prorogued or during which both Houses are adjourned for more than four days.</Text>
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<Text>Any order under this section to which subsection (3) above does not apply shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.</Text>
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<Text>An order under this section may contain such transitional provisions as the Secretary of State thinks necessary or expedient.</Text>
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<Text><CitationSubRef id="ugz3rk95-d3e31381a1310" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1986/60/part/I" SectionRef="part-I">Pt. I</CitationSubRef> (ss. 1-128) amended (S.) (22.5.2000) by <Citation id="ugz3rk95-d3e31384a1310" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2000/121" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2000" Number="121">S.I. 2000/121</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="ugz3rk95-d3e31387a1310" CitationRef="ugz3rk95-d3e31384a1310" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2000/121/regulation/1" SectionRef="regulation-1">regs. 1</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="ugz3rk95-d3e31390a1310" CitationRef="ugz3rk95-d3e31384a1310" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2000/121/regulation/37" SectionRef="regulation-37">37</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="ugz3rk95-d3e31393a1310" CitationRef="ugz3rk95-d3e31384a1310" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2000/121/schedule/2" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-2">Sch. 2</CitationSubRef></Text>
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<Text><CitationSubRef id="ugz3rk95-d3e31398a1310" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1986/60/part/I" SectionRef="part-I">Pt. I</CitationSubRef> (ss. 1–128): power to modify conferred (<Emphasis>prosp.</Emphasis>) by <Citation id="ugz3rk95-d3e31404a1310" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41" Year="1990" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="41" Title="Courts and Legal Services Act 1990">Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 76:1)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="ugz3rk95-d3e31407a1310" CitationRef="ugz3rk95-d3e31404a1310" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/section/89" SectionRef="section-89">ss. 89</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="ugz3rk95-d3e31410a1310" CitationRef="ugz3rk95-d3e31404a1310" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/section/124/3" SectionRef="section-124-3">124(3)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="ugz3rk95-d3e31413a1310" CitationRef="ugz3rk95-d3e31404a1310" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/41/schedule/14/paragraph/9/c" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-14-paragraph-9-c">Sch. 14 para. 9(c)</CitationSubRef></Text>
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<Text><CitationSubRef id="ugz3rk95-d3e31434a1310" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1986/60/section/2" SectionRef="section-2">S. 2</CitationSubRef>: s. 2 power exercised by <Citation id="ugz3rk95-d3e31437a1310" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1991/1104" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1991" Number="1104">S.I. 1991/1104</Citation>.</Text>
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<Text><CitationSubRef id="ugz3rk95-d3e31442a1310" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1986/60/section/2" SectionRef="section-2">S. 2</CitationSubRef>: ss. 2 and 46 (with s. 75(9)) power exercised by <Citation id="ugz3rk95-d3e31445a1310" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1991/1516" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1991" Number="1516">S.I.1991/1516</Citation>.</Text>
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<Text><CitationSubRef id="ugz3rk95-d3e31451a1310" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1986/60/section/2" SectionRef="section-2">S. 2</CitationSubRef>: for previous exercises of this power, see Index to Government Orders.</Text>
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