489Meaning of “offshore fund” etcU.K.
(1)Sections 756A to 756C of ICTA (meaning of “offshore fund” and application to parts of umbrella funds and classes of interests in offshore funds) apply for the purposes of this Chapter as they apply for the purposes of Chapter 5 of Part 17 of that Act, except as provided in subsection (2).
(2)For the purposes of this Chapter “offshore fund” includes anything which would be an offshore fund for the purposes of Chapter 5 of Part 17 of ICTA if the unit trust schemes and arrangements referred to in section 756A(1)(b) and (c) of that Act were not limited to collective investment schemes (and sections 756B and 756C of that Act apply for the purposes of this Chapter accordingly).
(3)For the purposes of this Chapter an interest in an offshore fund is a material interest in such a fund if it is such an interest for the purposes of section 759 of ICTA or would be if those schemes and arrangements were not so limited.