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PART 7Offences relating to financial services

93Interpretation of Part 7

(1)This section has effect for the interpretation of this Part.

(2)Investment” includes any asset, right or interest.

(3)Relevant agreement” means an agreement—

(a)the entering into or performance of which by either party constitutes an activity of a kind specified in an order made by the Treasury, and

(b)which relates to a relevant investment.

(4)Relevant benchmark” means a benchmark of a kind specified in an order made by the Treasury.

(5)Relevant investment” means an investment of a kind specified in an order made by the Treasury.

(6)Schedule 2 to FSMA 2000 (except paragraphs 25 and 26) applies for the purposes of subsections (3) and (5) with references to section 22 of that Act being read as references to each of those subsections.

(7)Nothing in Schedule 2 to FSMA 2000, as applied by subsection (6), limits the power conferred by subsection (3) or (5).

(8)Price stabilising rules” and “control of information rules” have the same meaning as in FSMA 2000.

(9)In this section “benchmark” has the meaning given in section 22(6) of FSMA 2000.