Financial Services and Markets Act 2000

[F1191GInterpretationU.K.

This section has no associated Explanatory Notes

(1) In this Part—

  • “acquisition” means the acquisition of control or of an increase in control over a UK authorised person;

  • “credit institution” means—

    (a)

    a credit institution authorised under the banking consolidation directive; or

    (b)

    an institution which would satisfy the requirements for authorisation as a credit institution under that directive if it had its registered office (or if it does not have a registered office, its head office) in an EEA State;

  • “shares” has the same meaning as in section 422;

  • “UK authorised person” means an authorised person who—

    (a)

    is a body incorporated in, or an unincorporated association formed under the law of, any part of the United Kingdom; and

    (b)

    is not a person authorised as a result of paragraph 1 of Schedule 5; and

  • “voting power” has the same meaning as in section 422.

(2)For the purposes of this Part, a “working day” is a day other than—

(a)a Saturday or a Sunday; or

(b)a day which is a bank holiday in England and Wales under the M1Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.]

Textual Amendments

F1Ss. 178-191G and cross-headings substituted (21.3.2009) for ss. 178-191 and cross-headings by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Controllers) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/534), reg. 3, Sch. 1 (with reg. 8)

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