The Financial Services Act 1986 (Delegation) (No. 2) Order 1988

Transfer of functions

3.—(1) Except as provided in paragraph (3) of this article and subject to the provisions of paragraph (4), all those functions of the Secretary of State to which section 114 of the Act applies which are specified in paragraph (2) of this article are hereby transferred to the designated agency.

(2) The functions specified in this paragraph are—

(a) all functions under Chapter VIII of Part 1 of the Act;

(b) all functions under section 112 of the Act with respect to fees in respect of—

(i) applications under section 77 or 88 of the Act; and

(ii) notices under section 86(2) or 87(3) of the Act; and

(c) all functions under section 113 of the Act with respect to periodical fees in respect of managers of authorised unit trust schemes and operators of recognised schemes insofar as those functions are exercisable by virtue of section 113(8) of the Act.

(3) Paragraph (1) of this article does not apply to the following functions—

(a) the power to make regulations under section 81 of the Act with respect to the matters referred to in section 81(2)(d) and with respect to any other matters dealt with in the Authorised Unit Trust Scheme (Investment and Borrowing Powers) Regulations 1988(1);

(b) the power to prescribe the period referred to in section 87(3) of the Act; and

(c) functions under section 76(4) to (7) of the Act except insofar as they relate to the following matters—

(i) regulations imposing obligations or liabilities on the operator or the trustee (if any) of a single property scheme exempted by regulations made by the Secretary of State from the provisions of section 76(1) of the Act, including provisions for purposes corresponding to those for which provision can be made under section 85 of the Act in relation to authorised unit trust schemes; and

(ii) regulations making transitional or supplementary provisions with respect to the matters dealt with in sub-paragraph (i) above.

(4) The functions of the Secretary of State under section 94 of the Act are transferred to the designated agency subject to a reservation that they are to be exercisable by the Secretary of State concurrently with the designated agency.

(1)

S.I. 1988/284.