Authorisation: permission to carry on regulated activities
9.—(1) During the deemed authorisation period BCo is to be treated as having a Part IV permission to carry on the regulated activities specified in the first column of the table in Schedule 3 but subject to the limitations specified in the other columns of that table.
(2) But paragraph (1) only applies once payment in respect of the provisional allotment of 1,399,950,000 ordinary shares of £1 each in BCo to the Treasury Solicitor has been made by the Treasury to BCo.
(3) The FSA may vary or revoke the Part IV permission BCo is treated as having by virtue of paragraph (1) in the same circumstances in which, and in accordance with the same procedure by which, it may vary or revoke a Part IV permission granted under section 42(2) of FSMA 2000 (giving permission).
(4) In this article, “the deemed authorisation period” means the period beginning with the time at which this article comes into force and ending with the earlier of the following—
(a)the time at which the FSA grants permission under section 42 of FSMA 2000 for BCo to carry on all of the regulated activities BCo is treated as having permission to carry on by virtue of paragraph (1);
(b)the end of 31st January 2010.