17.—(1) If an open-ended investment company which complies with the conditions necessary to enable it to enjoy the rights conferred by [F1the UCITS directive] so requests, the Authority may issue a certificate to the effect that the company complies with those conditions.
(2) Such a certificate may be issued on the making of an authorisation order in respect of the company or at any subsequent time.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 17(1) substituted (13.2.2004) by The Collective Investment Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2066), regs. 1(1), 13(7)(b)