Part XVII Collective Investment Schemes

F1CHAPTER 3AAUTHORISED CONTRACTUAL SCHEMES

Applications for authorisation

261E.F2Authorised contractual schemes: holding of units

(1)

The participants in a contractual scheme must be entitled to have their units redeemed in accordance with the scheme at a price—

(a)

related to the net value of the property to which the units relate; and

(b)

determined in accordance with the scheme.

(2)

The scheme must not allow units in the scheme to be issued to anyone other than—

(a)

a professional investor;

(b)

a large investor; or

(c)

a person who already holds units in the scheme.

(3)

The scheme must require the operator, if it becomes aware that units have become vested in a person to whom as a result of subsection (2) the units could not have been issued, to redeem the units as soon as practicable.

(4)

In subsection (2)—

“professional investor” means a person who falls within one of the categories F3(a) to (d) of paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the markets in financial instruments regulation; and

“large investor” means a person who, in exchange for units in the scheme, makes a payment of, or contributes property with a value of, not less than £1,000,000.