HC Deb 12 June 1986 vol 99 cc629-30

Amendment made: No. 271, in page 172, line 11, at end insert —

'Recognised collective investment schemes

6A. —(1) If at any time before the coming into force of section 78 of this Act it appears to the Secretary of State that the law of a member State other than the United Kingdom confers rights on the managers and trustees of authorised unit trust schemes entitling them to carry on in that State on termse quivalent to those of that section —

  1. (a) investment business which consists in operating or acting as trustee in relation to such schemes; and
  2. (b) any investment business which is carried on by them in connection with or for the purposes of such schemes,
he may by order direct that schemes constituted in that State which satisfy such requirements as are specified in the order shall be recognised schemes for the purposes of this Act. (2) Subsections (2) to (9) of section 78 of this Act shall have effect in relation to any scheme recognised by virtue of this paragraph; and the references in sections 23 and 163(1) of this Act to a scheme recognised under section 78, and in section 68(1) of this Act to a scheme recognised under Chapter VII of Part I of this Act, shall include references to any scheme recognised by virtue of this paragraph. (3) In section 78(3)(a) as applied by sub-paragraph (2) above the reference to the rights conferred by any relevant Community instrument shall be construed as a reference to the rights conferred by virtue of an order made under this pa ra graph'. —[Mr. Howard.]

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