PART II SPECIFIED ACTIVITIES

Chapter IVDealing in Investments as Principal

Exclusions

Issue by a company of its own shares etc.18.

(1)

There is excluded from article 14 the issue by a company of its own shares or share warrants, and the issue by any person of his own debentures or debenture warrants.

(2)

In this article—

(a)

“company" means any body corporate other than an open-ended investment company;

(b)

“shares" and “debentures" include any investment of the kind specified by article 76 F1, 77 or 77A;

(c)

“share warrants" and “debenture warrants" mean any investment of the kind specified by article 79 which relates to shares in the company concerned or, as the case may be, debentures issued by F2the person concerned.