The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Official Listing of Securities) Regulations 2001

Offers of securities to “qualifying persons": definitions U.K.

11.—(1) For the purposes of paragraph 16(3) of Schedule 11 (offers of securities to “qualifying persons") and for the purposes of paragraph (2) below, a body corporate is “connected with" another body corporate if—

(a) they are in the same group; or

(b) one is entitled, either alone or with any other body corporate in the same group, to exercise or control the exercise of a majority of the voting rights attributable to the share capital which are exercisable in all circumstances at any general meeting of the other body corporate or its holding company.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph 16(4) of Schedule 11, “relevant trustee" means a person holding shares in or debentures of a body corporate as trustee, in pursuance of arrangements made by that body corporate (or by another body corporate connected with it) for the purpose of enabling or facilitating the holding of such shares or debentures by or for the benefit of qualifying persons (within the meaning of paragraph 16(2) of Schedule 11), or enabling or facilitating transactions in such shares or debentures between or for the benefit of such persons.

(3) In paragraph (2) above, “shares" and “debentures" include—

(a) any investment of the kind specified by article 76 of the Regulated Activities Order (shares) or article 77 of that Order (instruments creating or acknowledging indebtedeness);

(b) any investment of the kind specified by article 79 or 80 of that Order (instruments giving entitlements to investments, and certificates representing certain securities) so far as relevant to articles 76 and 77; and

(c) any investment of the kind specified by article 89 of that Order (rights to or interests in investments) so far as relevant to investments of the kind mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) above.

(4) For the purposes of paragraph 16(4) of Schedule 11 and for the purposes of paragraph (1) above, “group", in relation to a body corporate, means that body corporate, any other body corporate which is its holding company or subsidiary, and any other body corporate which is a subsidiary of that holding company, together with any body corporate in which a member of the group holds a qualifying capital interest.

(5) In this regulation—

(a) “equity share capital" is to be construed in accordance with section 744 of the Companies Act 1985 M1 (or, in relation to a company registered in Northern Ireland, in accordance with article 2(3) of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 M2 );

(b) “holding company" and “subsidiary" are to be construed in accordance with section 736 of the Companies Act 1985 (or, in relation to a company registered in Northern Ireland, in accordance with article 4 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 M3 );

(c) “qualifying capital interest", in relation to a body corporate, means an interest, in relevant shares of the body corporate, which is held on a long-term basis for the purpose of securing a contribution to the holder’s own activities by the exercise of control or influence arising from that interest, and a holding of 20 per cent. or more of the nominal value of the relevant shares of a body corporate is to be presumed to be a qualifying capital interest unless the contrary is shown; and

(d) “relevant shares", in relation to a body corporate, means shares, comprised in the equity share capital of the body corporate, of a class carrying rights to vote in all circumstances at general meetings of the body.

Marginal Citations

M1 1985 c. 6. There are amendments to that section which are not relevant to these Regulations.

M2 S.I. 1986/1032 (N.I. 6).

M3 Article 4 was substituted by S.I. 1990/1504 (N.I. 10).