The Financial Services Act 1986 (Restriction of Scope of Act and Meaning of Collective Investment Scheme)(No. 2) Order 1990

“(f)

arrangements where—

(i)

each of the participants is a bona fide employee or former employee (or the wife, husband, widow, widower, or child (including, in Northern Ireland, adopted child) or step-child under the age of eighteen of such an employee or former employee) of any of the following bodies corporate, that is to say, The National Grid Company plc, Electricity Association Services Limited or any other body corporate in the same group as either of them and which is operated by any of those bodies corporate; and

(ii)

the property to which the arrangements relate consists of shares or debentures (as defined in paragraph 20(4) above) in or of a body corporate which is an electricity successor company for the purposes of Part II of the Electricity Act 19893 or a body corporate which would be regarded as connected with such an electricity successor company for the purposes of paragraph 20 above.

and for the purposes of this paragraph references to former employees shall have the same meaning as in the Financial Services Act 1986 (Electricity Industry Exemptions) Order 19904.”.