The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005

Providing funeral plan contractsU.K.

9.—(1) Entering as provider into a qualifying funeral plan contract is a controlled activity.

(2) A “qualifying funeral plan contract” is a contract under which—

(a)a person (“the customer”) makes one or more payments to another person (“the provider”);

(b)the provider undertakes to provide, or to secure that another person provides, a funeral in the United Kingdom for the customer (or some other person who is living at the date when the contract is entered into) on his death; and

(c)the provider is a person who carries on the regulated activity specified in article 59 of the Regulated Activities Order.