15.—(1) The interpretive provisions in regulation 7 shall apply to this Part.
(2) This Part applies where a master UCITS [F1which is a UK UCITS and] which has one or more feeder UCITS is divided into two or more [F2UK] UCITS.
(3) The division shall not take effect unless the master UCITS has provided information comparable to the information specified in regulation 9(2) in relation to the division (“the required information”) to all its unit-holders and to the [F3Authority] at least sixty days before the day on which the division is planned to take effect.
(4) A master UCITS will have complied with the obligation in paragraph (3) to provide information to all its unit-holders if it has sent the required information to each of the unit-holders (or in the case of joint unit-holders, to the first named unit-holder) whose name is entered in the register of unit-holders at the date on which the information is provided.
(5) The master UCITS must enable its feeder UCITS to repurchase or redeem all the units of the master UCITS in which they have invested before the division becomes effective, unless the [F4Financial Conduct Authority] approves the continued investment by the feeder UCITS in the [F5UK] UCITS resulting from the division.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 15(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Collective Investment Schemes (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/325), regs. 1(2), 41(2)(a) (with savings in S.I. 2019/680, reg. 11); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2Word in reg. 15(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Collective Investment Schemes (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/325), regs. 1(2), 41(2)(b) (with savings in S.I. 2019/680, reg. 11); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3Word in reg. 15(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Collective Investment Schemes (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/325), regs. 1(2), 41(3) (with savings in S.I. 2019/680, reg. 11); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F4Words in reg. 15(5) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Financial Services Act 2012 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/472), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 212(b)
F5Word in reg. 15(5) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Collective Investment Schemes (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/325), regs. 1(2), 41(4) (with savings in S.I. 2019/680, reg. 11); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)