Finance Act 2019

Amendment of section 845C of Principal Act (treatment of Additional Tier 1 instruments)

22. Section 845C of the Principal Act is amended in subsection (1) by substituting the following for the definition of “Additional Tier 1 instrument”:

“‘Additional Tier 1 instrument’ means an instrument—

(a) which qualifies, or has qualified, as an Additional Tier 1 instrument under Article 52 of the Capital Requirements Regulation, or

(b) which is an instrument that has not been issued by an institution within the meaning of Article 4 of the Capital Requirements Regulation but which satisfies conditions that, with any necessary modification of them by virtue of the fact that the instrument has not been issued by a foregoing institution, are equivalent to the conditions specified in Article 52 of the Capital Requirements Regulation;”.