Asset Covered Securities Act, 2001

What can be included in a cover assets pool maintained by a designated mortgage credit institution.

33.—(1) Any mortgage credit asset or substitution asset located within an EEA country may be included in a cover assets pool maintained by a designated mortgage credit institution.

(2) A designated mortgage credit institution may not include in a cover assets pool maintained by the institution a mortgage credit asset or substitution asset that is located within one or more category A countries if, after the inclusion of the asset in the pool, the total prudent market value of all mortgage credit assets and substitution assets comprised in the pool located in all such countries would exceed the prescribed percentage of the total prudent market value of all mortgage credit assets and substitution assets that are then included in the pool. For the purposes of this subsection, the prescribed percentage is 15 per cent or, if the regulations prescribe some other percentage, that percentage.

(3) A designated mortgage credit institution may include in a cover assets pool maintained by the institution mortgage credit assets or substitution assets that are located within a category B country only if—

(a) the country is a country designated by an order made under subsection (4), and

(b) the institution complies with any restrictions specified in the order.

(4) The Minister may, by order notified in Iris Oifigiúil, specify a category B country for the purposes of subsection (3). The Minister shall include in such an order restrictions as to the prudent market value of the mortgage credit assets and substitution assets referred to in subsection (3) that a designated mortgage credit institution can include in the cover assets pool as a percentage of the total prudent market value of mortgage credit assets and substitution assets included in the pool.

(5) A designated mortgage credit institution may not include in a cover assets pool a mortgage credit asset that is secured on commercial property if, after inclusion of the asset in the pool, the total prudent market value of all mortgage credit assets so secured would exceed the prescribed percentage of the total prudent market value of all mortgage credit assets and substitution assets then comprised in the pool. For the purposes of this subsection, the prescribed percentage is 10 per cent or, if the regulations prescribe some other percentage, that other percentage.

(6) A designated mortgage credit institution may not include in a cover assets pool a mortgage credit asset if a building related to that mortgage credit asset is being or is to be constructed until the building is ready for occupation as a commercial or residential property.