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(1)The Authority may, on the application of the operator of a collective investment scheme which—
(a)is managed in a country or territory outside the United Kingdom,
(b)does not satisfy the requirements prescribed for the purposes of section 264,
(c)is not managed in a country or territory designated for the purposes of section 270 or, if it is so managed, is of a class not specified by the designation order, and
(d)appears to the Authority to satisfy the requirements set out in the following provisions of this section,
make an order declaring the scheme to be a recognised scheme.
(2)Adequate protection must be afforded to participants in the scheme.
(3)The arrangements for the scheme’s constitution and management must be adequate.
(4)The powers and duties of the operator and, if the scheme has a trustee or depositary, of the trustee or depositary must be adequate.
(5)In deciding whether the matters mentioned in subsection (3) or (4) are adequate, the Authority must have regard to—
(a)any rule of law, and
(b)any matters which are, or could be, the subject of rules,
applicable in relation to comparable authorised schemes.
(6)“Comparable authorised schemes” means whichever of the following the Authority considers the most appropriate, having regard to the nature of scheme in respect of which the application is made—
(a)authorised unit trust schemes;
(b)authorised open-ended investment companies;
(c)both such unit trust schemes and such companies.
(7)The scheme must take the form of an open-ended investment company or (if it does not take that form) the operator must be a body corporate.
(8)The operator of the scheme must—
(a)if an authorised person, have permission to act as operator;
(b)if not an authorised person, be a fit and proper person to act as operator.
(9)The trustee or depositary (if any) of the scheme must—
(a)if an authorised person, have permission to act as trustee or depositary;
(b)if not an authorised person, be a fit and proper person to act as trustee or depositary.
(10)The operator and the trustee or depositary (if any) of the scheme must be able and willing to co-operate with the Authority by the sharing of information and in other ways.
(11)The name of the scheme must not be undesirable or misleading.
(12)The purposes of the scheme must be reasonably capable of being successfully carried into effect.
(13)The participants must be entitled to have their units redeemed in accordance with the scheme at a price related to the net value of the property to which the units relate and determined in accordance with the scheme.
(14)But a scheme is to be treated as complying with subsection (13) if it requires the operator to ensure that a participant is able to sell his units on an investment exchange at a price not significantly different from that mentioned in that subsection.
(15)Subsection (13) is not to be read as imposing a requirement that the participants must be entitled to have their units redeemed (or sold as mentioned in subsection (14)) immediately following a demand to that effect.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 272(1) extended (1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/2636, arts. 1(2)(b), 68(1); S.I. 2001/3538, art. 2(1)
C2S. 272(8)(9) modified (31.10.2001) by S.I. 2001/3374, art. 1, Sch. para. 9
Commencement Information
I1S. 272 wholly in force at 1.12.2001; s. 272 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 431(2); s. 272 in force for specified purposes at 3.9.2001 by S.I. 2001/2632, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. 2; s. 272 in force in so far as not already in force at 1.12.2001 by S.I. 2001/3538, art. 2(1)
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