Regulation (EU) 2015/847 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilShow full title

Regulation (EU) 2015/847 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2015 on information accompanying transfers of funds and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1781/2006 (Text with EEA relevance)

Article 3U.K.Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:

(1)

‘terrorist financing’ means terrorist financing as defined in [F1regulation 3(1) of the 2017 Regulations];

(2)

[F2“money laundering” has the meaning given by section 340(11) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002;]

(3)

‘payer’ means a person that holds a payment account and allows a transfer of funds from that payment account, or, where there is no payment account, that gives a transfer of funds order;

(4)

‘payee’ means a person that is the intended recipient of the transfer of funds;

(5)

[F3“payment services provider” has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Payment Services Regulations 2017;]

(6)

‘intermediary payment service provider’ means a payment service provider that is not the payment service provider of the payer or of the payee and that receives and transmits a transfer of funds on behalf of the payment service provider of the payer or of the payee or of another intermediary payment service provider;

(7)

[F4“payment account” has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Payment Services Regulations 2017;]

(8)

‘funds’ means funds as defined in [F5regulation 2(1) of the Payment Services Regulations 2017];

(9)

‘transfer of funds’ means any transaction at least partially carried out by electronic means on behalf of a payer through a payment service provider, with a view to making funds available to a payee through a payment service provider, irrespective of whether the payer and the payee are the same person and irrespective of whether the payment service provider of the payer and that of the payee are one and the same, including:

(a)

a credit transfer as defined in point (1) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 260/2012;

(b)

a direct debit as defined in point (2) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 260/2012;

(c)

a money remittance as defined in [F6regulation 2(1) of the Payment Services Regulations 2017], whether national or cross border;

(d)

a transfer carried out using a payment card, an electronic money instrument, or a mobile phone, or any other digital or IT prepaid or postpaid device with similar characteristics;

(10)

‘batch file transfer’ means a bundle of several individual transfers of funds put together for transmission;

(11)

‘unique transaction identifier’ means a combination of letters, numbers or symbols determined by the payment service provider, in accordance with the protocols of the payment and settlement systems or messaging systems used for the transfer of funds, which permits the traceability of the transaction back to the payer and the payee;

(12)

‘person-to-person transfer of funds’ means a transaction between natural persons acting, as consumers, for purposes other than trade, business or profession.

(13)

[F7“the 2017 Regulations” means the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017.]

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