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Citation and commencementU.K.

1.  This Order may be cited as the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Exemption) Order 2001 and comes into force on the day on which section 19 of the Act comes into force.

InterpretationU.K.

2.  In this Order—

Textual Amendments

Marginal Citations

M4S.I. 1985/1205 (N.I. 12); relevant amendments are made by paragraphs 28 and 29 of Schedule 21 to the Friendly Societies Act 1992 (c. 40), and by S.I. 1997/2984 (N.I. 22).

M51972 c. 70; the definition of “local authority" in section 270 has been repealed in part by Schedule 17 to the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), and amended by section 1(5) of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19).

M61973 c. 65; the definition of “local authority" in section 235 was substituted by paragraph 92(66) of Schedule 13 to the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39).

Persons exempt in respect of any regulated activity other than insurance businessU.K.

3.  Each of the persons listed in Part I of the Schedule is exempt from the general prohibition in respect of any regulated activity other than an activity of the kind specified by article 10 of the Regulated Activities Order (effecting and carrying out contracts of insurance).

Persons exempt in respect of accepting depositsU.K.

4.  Subject to the limitations, if any, expressed in relation to him, each of the persons listed in Part II of the Schedule is exempt from the general prohibition in respect of any regulated activity of the kind specified by article 5 of the Regulated Activities Order (accepting deposits).

Persons exempt in respect of particular regulated activitiesU.K.

5.—(1) Subject to the limitation, if any, expressed in relation to him, each of the persons listed in Part III of the Schedule is exempt from the general prohibition in respect of any regulated activity of the kind specified by any of the following provisions of the Regulated Activities Order, or article 64 of that Order (agreeing to carry on specified kinds of activity) so far as relevant to any such activity—

(a)article 14 (dealing in investments as principal);

(b)article 21 (dealing in investments as agent);

(c)article 25 (arranging deals in investments);

(d)article 37 (managing investments);

[F3(da)article 39A (assisting in the administration and performance of a contract of insurance);]

(e)article 40 (safeguarding and administering investments);

(f)article 45 (sending dematerialised instructions);

(g)article 51 (establishing etc. a collective investment scheme);

(h)article 52 (establishing etc. a stakeholder pension scheme);

(i)article 53 (advising on investments).

(2) Subject to the limitation, if any, expressed in relation to him, each of the persons listed in Part IV of the Schedule is exempt from the general prohibition in respect of any regulated activity of the kind referred to in relation to him, or an activity of the kind specified by article 64 of the Regulated Activities Order so far as relevant to any such activity.

Transitional exemption for credit unionsU.K.

6.  A credit union, within the meaning F4..., is exempt from the general prohibition in respect of any regulated activity of the kind specified by article 5 of the Regulated Activities Order, but only until 1st July 2002.

Jim Dowd

Greg Pope

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury