PART 1U.K.Introductory provisions

InterpretationU.K.

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

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“capital requirements regulation” means Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms and amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 M1;

[F4“on a consolidated basis” means on the basis of the consolidated situation;

“consolidated situation” means the situation that results from an entity being treated, for the purposes of the capital requirements regulation or CRR rules (as appropriate), as if that entity and one or more other entities formed a single entity;

“CRR rules” has the meaning given in section 144A of FSMA;]

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“FSMA” means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;

“group” means a group whose members include one or more institutions;

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[F5“Specified EU Regulations under the Capital Requirements Regulation” means the EU regulations or parts of EU regulations which form part of retained EU law and which are specified in paragraphs 78 to 83 and 126 to 168, in Schedule 1 to the Financial Regulators' Powers (Technical Standards) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations.]

(2) Except as provided by paragraph (1)—

(a)any expression used in these Regulations which is defined in Article 4 (definitions) of the capital requirements regulation F6... has the meaning which it is given in that Article M2;

(b)any other expression used in these Regulations which is defined in section 417 (definitions) of FSMA has the meaning given by that section M3.

[F7(3) Any reference in these Regulations to any EU regulation, EU decision or EU tertiary legislation (within the meaning of section 20 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018) is, unless the contrary intention appears, to be treated as a reference to that EU regulation, EU decision or EU tertiary legislation as it [F8forms part of retained EU law]. ]

Textual Amendments

F1Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (1.1.2022) by virtue of The Financial Services Act 2021 (Prudential Regulation of Credit Institutions and Investment Firms) (Consequential Amendments and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1376), regs. 1(3), 16(2)(a)

F2Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Capital Requirements (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1401), regs. 1(3), 11(2)(a) (with savings in S.I. 2019/680, reg. 11); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (1.1.2022) by virtue of The Financial Services Act 2021 (Prudential Regulation of Credit Institutions and Investment Firms) (Consequential Amendments and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1376), regs. 1(3), 16(2)(b)

F4Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (1.1.2022) by The Financial Services Act 2021 (Prudential Regulation of Credit Institutions and Investment Firms) (Consequential Amendments and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1376), regs. 1(3), 16(2)(c)

F5Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Capital Requirements (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1401), regs. 1(3), 11(2)(b) (with savings in S.I. 2019/680, reg. 11); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F6Words in reg. 2(2)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Capital Requirements (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1401), regs. 1(3), 11(3) (with savings in S.I. 2019/680, reg. 11); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F7Reg. 2(3) inserted (20.12.2018) by The Capital Requirements (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1401), regs. 1(2), 4

F8Words in reg. 2(3) substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completiton day) by The Securities Financing Transactions, Securitisation and Miscellaneous Amendments (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1385), reg. 1(4), Sch. para. 1(1), (2)(d)

Marginal Citations

M1OJ no L176, 27/6/2013, p.1. For corrigenda see OJ no L208, 2/8/2013 p.68 and OJ no L321, 30/11/2013 p. 6.

M2In particular, “branch”, “credit institution”, “institution” and “investment firm” are defined in Article 4(1) of the capital requirements regulation.

M3In particular, “EBA”, “ESMA”, “FCA”, “PRA”, “PRA-authorised person” and “the Tribunal” are defined in section 417 of FSMA.