Finance Act 2006

Common contractual funds.

45.— The Principal Act is amended—

(a) in section 739H by inserting the following after subsection (2):

“(3) (a) This section applies to a scheme for the reconstruction of a common contractual fund or funds (within the meaning of section 739I(1)(a)(i)) or to the amalgamation of 2 or more such funds as it would apply to a scheme of reconstruction or amalgamation if ‘investment undertaking’ included a common contractual fund within the meaning of section 739I(1)(a)(i).

(b) For the purposes of this subsection the definitions of ‘investment undertaking’, ‘unit’ and ‘unit holder’ shall apply, with any necessary modifications, to a common contractual fund within the meaning of section 739I(1)(a)(i) as they apply to an investment undertaking within the meaning of paragraph (b) of the definition of ‘investment undertaking’.”,

and

(b) in section 739I(1)(a) by substituting the following for subparagraph (i):

“(i) a collective investment undertaking being an unincorporated body established by a management company under which the participants by contractual arrangement participate and share in the property of the collective investment undertaking as co-owners, where it is expressly stated in its deed of constitution to be established pursuant to the Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2005 and which holds an authorisation issued in accordance with that Act and which is not established pursuant to Council Directive No. 85/611/EEC of 20 December 1985 2 , as amended from time to time, or”.

2OJ No. L375, 31.12.1985, p.3