SCHEDULES
C1SCHEDULE 3EEA Passport Rights
Part III Exercise of Passport Rights by UK Firms
F2Tied agents
Sch. 3 para. 20A and preceding cross-heading inserted (1.4.2007 for certain purposes, otherwise 1.11.2007) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Markets in Financial Instruments) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/126), regs. 1(2), 3(4), Sch. 4 para. 12
20BF1Notice of intention to market F4a UCITS
1
The operator of a UCITS established in the United Kingdom may not exercise an EEA right to market the units of that UCITS in the territory of another EEA State unless the operator has given the F3appropriate UK regulator, in the specified way, notice of its intention to market the units (“notice of intention”) which contains, and is accompanied by, such information as may be specified in rules, or in regulations made by the European Commission under the UCITS directive.
2
The F3appropriate UK regulator must ensure that the information referred to in sub-paragraph (1) may be transmitted to it electronically.
3
The F3appropriate UK regulator must verify whether the information submitted with the notice of intention is complete and, within 10 days of the date on which the F3appropriate UK regulator received the complete information required, send to the host state regulator—
a
a copy of the notice of intention;
b
the accompanying information; and
c
confirmation that the operator and the UCITS fulfil the conditions imposed by the UCITS directive.
4
The F3appropriate UK regulator must ensure that the host state regulator has electronic access to the information and documents referred to in sub-paragraph (3).
5
The F3appropriate UK regulator must notify the operator immediately that the information referred to in sub-paragraph (3) has been sent to the competent authorities of the host state regulator.
6
The operator may market the units of the UCITS in the territory of the host state regulator from the moment it receives the notification referred to in sub-paragraph (5).
7
In this paragraph—
“operator” has the same meaning as in section 237 of this Act;
“specified” means specified in rules.
Sch. 3 extended (with modifications) (1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/2636, arts. 1(2)(b), 25-27; S.I. 2001/3538, art. 2(1)
Sch. 3 extended (with modifications) (Gibraltar) (5.10.2001 for specified purposes, 1.12.2001 in so far as not already in force) by S.I. 2001/3084, arts. 1(1), 2-4 (as amended (16.6.2014) by The Alternative Investment Fund Managers Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/1292), arts. 1(2), 3 (which amending S.I. is itself amended by S.I. 2014/1313, arts. 1, 2(a)); and as amended (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/589, regs. 1(3), 5-9 (with reg. 12) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1274, regs. 1, 2)); S.I. 2001/3538, art. 2(1)
Sch. 3 modified (1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/3592, arts. 1(2), 114(3)(b), 128(3)(b) (with art. 23(2))