The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Exemption) Order 2001

44.    U.K.

(1) A charity is exempt from the general prohibition in respect of any regulated activity of the kind specified by [F1articles 51ZA to 51ZE of the Regulated Activities Order (managing or acting as trustee or depositary of a UCITS or an AIF, or establishing etc. a collective investment scheme)] which it carries on in relation to a fund established under—

(a)section 22A of the Charities Act 1960 M1;

(b)section 25 of the Charities Act 1993 M2; or

(c)section 25 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 M3.

(2) A charity is exempt from the general prohibition in respect of any regulated activity of the kind specified by [F2articles 51ZA to 51ZE of the Regulated Activities Order (managing or acting as trustee or depositary of a UCITS or an AIF, or establishing etc. a collective investment scheme)] which it carries on in relation to a pooling scheme fund established under—

(a)section 22 of the Charities Act 1960; or

(b)section 24 of the Charities Act 1993.

(3) In sub-paragraph (2), “pooling scheme fund" means a fund established by a common investment scheme the trusts of which provide that property is not to be transferred to the fund except by or on behalf of a charity, the charity trustees (within the meaning of section 97(1) of the Charities Act 1993) of which are the trustees appointed to manage the fund.