Securities Markets Order, 2013 · As enacted · Part IX
228. Application to Court
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Where the Authority may give a direction under section 227, it may also apply to the Court for an order -
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fa} removing the operator or the custodian or both of them, of the collective investment scheme; and
operator
"operator", of a collective investment' scheme, which is an investment company, means- {a) the licensed corporate director of that company which is the management company; {b) in relation to a unit trust, the management company; and {c) in relation to a partnership, the general partner.
replacing the operator or the custodian removed with a suitable person or persons nominated by the Authority.
The Authority may nominate a person for the purposes of subsection
(b} only if it is satisfied that, if the order was made, the requirements of the grant of the licence would be complied with.
If it appears to the Authority that there is no person it can nominate for the purposes of subsection (l)(b), it may apply to the Court for an order appointing a holder of a capital markets services licence to wind up the collective investment scheme.
collective investment scheme
"collective investment scheme" means any investment arrangements with respect to assets of any description, including money, the purpose or effect of which is to enable persons taking part in the arrangements (whether by becoming owners of the property or any part of it or otherwise) to participate in or receive profits or income arising from the acquisition/ holding, management or disposal of the property or sums paid out of such profits or income. [2) The arrangements must be such that - (a) the persons who are to participate ("participants") do not have day-to-day control over the management of the property, whether or not they have the right to be consulted or to give directions; (b) the arrangements must also have either or both of the following characteristics - (i) the contributions of the participants and the profits or income out of which payments are to be made to them are pooled; (ii) the property is managed as a whole, by or on behalf of the operator of the collective investment scheme; and (c) the arrangements must satisfy the condition set out in subsection (3). (3) The condition referred to in subsection (2)(b) is that the property belongs beneficially to, and is managed by or on behalf of, a company, the trustee of a trust or some other entity or arrangement having as its purpose the investment of its funds with the aim of spreading the investment risk and giving its members the benefit of the results of the management of those funds for or on behalf of that company, trust, entity or arrangement. (4) If the arrangements referred to in subsection (2)(b)(i) provide for such pooling in relation to separate parts of the property, and each part is maintained in a portfolio segregated in the book of the scheme from the other assets of the scheme, the arrangements shall be regarded as constituting a single umbrella collective investment scheme provided that the participants are entitled to exchange rights in one part for rights in another. Operating without licence.
On an application under this section, the Court may make such order as it thinks fit.
The Authority must give notice in writing of the making of an application under . this section to the operator or the custodian of the collective investment scheme concerned.
custodian
"custodian", in relation to any form of collective investment scheme, means any person to whom the property subject to the collective investment scheme is entrusted for safekeeping;
The jurisdiction conferred by this section may be exercised by the High
Court.
Terms defined in this Act
collective investment scheme
Defined · s 203"collective investment scheme" means any investment arrangements with respect to assets of any description, including money, the purpose or effect of which is to enable persons taking part in the arrangements (whether by becoming owners of the property or any part of it or otherwise) to participate in or receive profits or income arising from the acquisition/ holding, management or disposal of the property or sums paid out of such profits or income. [2) The arrangements must be such that - (a) the persons who are to participate ("participants") do not have day-to-day control over the management of the property, whether or not they have the right to be consulted or to give directions; (b) the arrangements must also have either or both of the following characteristics - (i) the contributions of the participants and the profits or income out of which payments are to be made to them are pooled; (ii) the property is managed as a whole, by or on behalf of the operator of the collective investment scheme; and (c) the arrangements must satisfy the condition set out in subsection (3). (3) The condition referred to in subsection (2)(b) is that the property belongs beneficially to, and is managed by or on behalf of, a company, the trustee of a trust or some other entity or arrangement having as its purpose the investment of its funds with the aim of spreading the investment risk and giving its members the benefit of the results of the management of those funds for or on behalf of that company, trust, entity or arrangement. (4) If the arrangements referred to in subsection (2)(b)(i) provide for such pooling in relation to separate parts of the property, and each part is maintained in a portfolio segregated in the book of the scheme from the other assets of the scheme, the arrangements shall be regarded as constituting a single umbrella collective investment scheme provided that the participants are entitled to exchange rights in one part for rights in another. Operating without licence.
custodian
Defined · s 207"custodian", in relation to any form of collective investment scheme, means any person to whom the property subject to the collective investment scheme is entrusted for safekeeping;
operator
Defined · s 207"operator", of a collective investment' scheme, which is an investment company, means- {a) the licensed corporate director of that company which is the management company; {b) in relation to a unit trust, the management company; and {c) in relation to a partnership, the general partner.
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