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The Financial Services Act 1986 (Restriction of Scope of Act and Meaning of Collective Investment Scheme) Order 1996

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Meaning of collective investment scheme

3.—(1) In section 75(6)(1)(1) of the Act, for the words “paragraph 34 or 35” there shall be substituted “any of paragraphs 34 to 36”.

(2) In Schedule 1 to the Act, after paragraph 35(2) there shall be inserted—

36.

(1)For the purposes of this Schedule, arrangements are not a collective investment scheme if they are operated by a body corporate, a body corporate connected with it or a relevant trustee, for the purpose of enabling or facilitating transactions in shares in or debentures of the first-mentioned body between or for the benefit of any of the persons mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) below or the holding of such shares or debentures by or for the benefit of any such persons.

(2)The persons referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above are—

(a)the bona fide employees or former employees of the body corporate or of another body corporate in the same group; or

(b)the wives, husbands, widows, widowers, or children or step-children under the age of eighteen of such employees or former employees.

(3)In this paragraph, “a relevant trustee” means a person holding shares in or debentures of a body corporate as trustee in pursuance of arrangements mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) above which were made by, or by a body corporate connected with, that body corporate.

(4)In this paragraph “shares” and “debentures” include any investment falling within paragraph 1 or 2 above and also include any investment falling within paragraph 4 or 5 above so far as relating to those paragraphs or any investment falling within paragraph 11 above so far as relating to paragraphs 1, 2, 4 or 5.

(5)For the purposes of this paragraph a body corporate is connected with another body corporate if—

(a)they are in the same group; or

(b)one is entitled, either alone or with any other body corporate in the same group, to exercise or control the exercise of a majority of the voting rights attributable to the share capital which are exercisable in all circumstances at any general meeting of the other body corporate or its holding company..

(1)

Section 75(6)(1) was inserted by the Financial Services Act 1986 (Restriction of Scope of Act and Meaning of Collective Investment Scheme) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/349).

(2)

Paragraph 35 was inserted by the Financial Services Act 1986 (Restriction of Scope of Act and Meaning of Collective Investment Scheme) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/349).

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