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Made | 19th March 2001 | ||
Laid before Parliament | 19th March 2001 | ||
Coming into force in accordance with article 1 |
1. | Citation and commencement |
2. | Interpretation: general |
3. | Interpretation: communications |
4. | Interpretation: real time communications |
5. | Interpretation: solicited and unsolicited real time communications |
6. | Degree of prominence to be given to required indications |
7. | Combination of different exemptions |
8. | Communications to overseas recipients |
9. | Solicited real time communications from overseas |
10. | Communications from overseas to previously overseas customers |
11. | Follow up non-real time communications and solicited real time communications |
12. | Introductions |
13. | Generic promotions |
14. | Investment professionals |
15. | One off non-real time communications and solicited real time communications |
16. | Communications required or authorised by enactments |
17. | Persons in the business of placing promotional material |
18. | Existing participants in an unregulated scheme |
19. | Group companies |
20. | Persons in the business of disseminating information |
21. | Certified high net worth individuals |
22. | High net worth companies, unincorporated associations etc. |
23. | Sophisticated investors |
24. | Associations of high net worth or sophisticated investors |
25. | Settlors, trustees and personal representatives |
26. | Beneficiaries of trust, will or intestacy |
27. | Remedy following report by Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration |
28. | Persons placing promotional material in particular publications |
(2) In this Order, any reference to the "scheme promotion restriction" means the restriction imposed by section 238(1) of the Act.
Interpretation: communications
3.
In this Order -
Interpretation: real time communications
4.
- (1) In this Order, references to a real time communication are references to any communication made in the course of a personal visit, telephone conversation or other interactive dialogue.
(2) A non-real time communication is a communication not falling within paragraph (1).
(3) For the purposes of this Order, non-real time communications include communications made by letter or e-mail or contained in a publication.
(4) For the purposes of this Order, the factors in paragraph (5) are to be treated as indications that a communication is a non-real time communication.
(5) The factors are that -
Interpretation: solicited and unsolicited real time communications
5.
- (1) A real time communication is solicited where it is made in the course of a personal visit, telephone call or other interactive dialogue if that call, visit or dialogue -
(b) a communication is solicited only if it is clear from all the circumstances when the call, visit or dialogue is initiated or requested that during the course of the visit, call or dialogue communications will be made concerning the kind of activities or investments to which the communications in fact made relate;
(c) it is immaterial whether the express request is made before or after this Order comes into force.
Degree of prominence to be given to required indications
6.
Where a communication must, if it is to fall within any provision of this Order, be accompanied by an indication of any matter, the indication must be presented to the recipient -
Combination of different exemptions
7.
Nothing in this Order is to be construed as preventing a person from relying on more than one exemption in respect of the same communication.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to an unsolicited real time communication unless -
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) -
(4) The conditions are that -
(5) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), a communication may be treated as directed only at persons outside the United Kingdom even if -
(6) Where a communication falls within paragraph (5) -
Solicited real time communications from overseas
9.
The scheme promotion restriction does not apply to any solicited real time communication which is made from outside the United Kingdom and which relates to units in an overseas scheme.
Communications from overseas to previously overseas customers
10.
- (1) The scheme promotion restriction does not apply to a non-real time or unsolicited real time communication which -
(3) A communication made or directed before this Order comes into force is to be treated as a first communication falling within paragraph (1) if it would have fallen within that paragraph had it been made or directed after this Order comes into force.
Introductions
12.
- (1) If the requirements of paragraph (2) are met, the scheme promotion restriction does not apply to any real time communication which is made with a view to or for the purposes of introducing the recipient to -
(2) The requirements of this paragraph are that -
Generic promotions
13.
The scheme promotion restriction does not apply to any communication which -
Investment professionals
14.
- (1) The scheme promotion restriction does not apply to any communication which -
(5) "Investment professionals" means -
(d) a government, local authority (whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere) or an international organisation;
(e) a person ("A") who is a director, officer or employee of a person ("B") falling within any of sub-paragraphs (a) to (d), when the communication is made to A in that capacity and where A's responsibilities when acting in that capacity involve him in B's participation in unregulated schemes.
One off non-real time communications and solicited real time communications
15.
- (1) The scheme promotion restriction does not apply to a one off communication which is either a non-real time communication or a solicited real time communication.
(2) If both the conditions set out in paragraph (3) are met in relation to a communication it is to be regarded as a one off communication. In any other case in which either of those conditions is met, that fact is to be taken into account in determining whether the communication is a one off communication (but a communication may still be regarded as a one off communication even if neither of the conditions in paragraph (3) is met).
(3) The conditions are that -
Communications required or authorised by enactments
16.
The scheme promotion restriction does not apply to any communication which is required or authorised to be communicated by or under any enactment other than the Act.
Persons in the business of placing promotional material
17.
The scheme promotion restriction does not apply to any communication which is made to a person whose business it is to place, or arrange for the placing of, promotional material provided that it is communicated so that he can place or arrange for placing it.
Existing participants in an unregulated scheme
18.
The scheme promotion restriction does not apply to any communication which is -
Group companies
19.
The scheme promotion restriction does not apply to any communication made by one body corporate in a group to another body corporate in the same group.
Persons in the business of disseminating information
20.
- (1) The scheme promotion restriction does not apply to any communication which is made only to recipients whom the person making the communication believes on reasonable grounds to be persons to whom paragraph (2) applies.
(2) This paragraph applies to -
Certified high net worth individuals
21.
- (1) If the requirements of paragraphs (4) and (5) are met, the scheme promotion restriction does not apply to any communication which -
(2) "Certified high net-worth individual" means any individual -
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(a) a certificate of high net worth -
(d) must be signed by the recipient's accountant or by the recipient's employer.
(4) The requirements of this paragraph are that the communication is accompanied by an indication -
(5) In determining an individual's "net assets", no account is to be taken of -
(6) A unit falls within this paragraph if it is in an unregulated scheme -
(7) "Unlisted company" has the meaning given in the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2001[3].
High net worth companies, unincorporated associations etc.
22.
- (1) The scheme promotion restriction does not apply to any communication which -
(2) This paragraph applies to -
(b) any unincorporated association or partnership which has net assets of not less than £5 million;
(c) the trustee of a high value trust;
(d) any person ("A") whilst acting in the capacity of director, officer or employee of a person ("B") falling within any of sub-paragraphs (a) to (c), where A's responsibilities, when acting in that capacity, involve him in B's participation in unregulated schemes;
(e) any person to whom the communication might otherwise lawfully be made.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) -
Sophisticated investors
23.
- (1) "Certified sophisticated investor" means a person -
(3) The requirements of this paragraph are that the communication is accompanied by an indication -
(4) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), a certificate is current if it is signed and dated not more than three years before the date on which the communication is made.
Associations of high net worth or sophisticated investors
24.
The scheme promotion restriction does not apply to any non-real time communication or solicited real time communication which -
(b) does not invite or induce the recipient to enter into an agreement under the terms of which he can incur a liability or obligation to pay or contribute more than he commits by way of investment.
Settlors, trustees and personal representatives
25.
The scheme promotion restriction does not apply to any communication which is made -
if the communication is made for the purposes of the trust or estate.
Beneficiaries of trust, will or intestacy
26.
The scheme promotion restriction does not apply to any communication which is made -
if the communication relates to the management or distribution of that trust fund or estate.
Remedy following report by Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration
27.
The scheme promotion restriction does not apply to any communication made or directed by a person for the purpose of enabling any injustice, stated by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration in a report under section 10 of the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967[6] to have occurred, to be remedied with respect to the recipient.
Persons placing promotional material in particular publications
28.
The scheme promotion restriction does not apply to any communication received by a person who receives the publication in which the communication is contained because he has himself placed an advertisement in that publication.
Greg Pope
Jim Dowd
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
[5] S.I. 1986/1032 (N.I. 6).back
[6] 1967 c.13. This Act has been amended by the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1994 (c.14).back
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